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The whole point of Buzzfeed News was actual journalism the clickbait on the main page (which isn't being shut down) paid for...

anotherhue 4y ago
I wasn't aware - can I ask do you know of any similar efforts where the revenue generating side and the 'meaningful to humanity / pulizter' side have maintained the mitochondrial relationship? It doesn't seem to hold up well to business administration tactics.
- sharkweek 4y ago
  Movie studios do this a lot - they’ll have their smaller production houses make movies that compete for awards and then the larger big budget companies make the blockbusters that subsidize the other stuff. Same with book publishing. Big publishing houses probably lose money on most of their literary National Book Award-chasing titles, but the prestige is worth it, if not subsidized by the more mass market books they put out.
- notahacker 4y ago
  A Sunday issue of a broadsheet arguably fits the bill. A normal newspaper and 4x the volume in additional supplements with lightweight content about travel, housing and movies to wrap ads around, sometimes with an insert or two entirely produced by a sponsor. Of course, they started off with news and diversified into lots of sub-papers that pay bills rather than the other way round and their travel listicles are marginally more highbrow than Buzzfeed and there's an argument the format is slowly dying, but the basic concept is the same. Same goes with the commercially successful online version of the UK's Daily Mail having a huge amount of online-only lightweight celebrity content in a clickbait sidebar sitting alongside its more right–wing campaigning style reporting
IshKebab 4y ago
Why didn't they brand it differently then?
- MSFT_Edging 4y ago
  Its been fairly common knowledge for years that "Buzzfeed News" was an actual reporting arm. The question you pose insinuates that you assume "Fox News" is mostly Simpsons and Family Guy reporting.
  - hobo_in_library 4y ago
    Wait, "Fox News" has legitimate reporting too?
    - gtk40 4y ago
      Wikipedia considers Fox News thusly: "There is consensus that Fox News is generally reliable for news coverage on topics other than politics and science." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

anotherhue 4y ago

I wasn't aware - can I ask do you know of any similar efforts where the revenue generating side and the 'meaningful to humanity / pulizter' side have maintained the mitochondrial relationship? It doesn't seem to hold up well to business administration tactics.

sharkweek 4y ago
Movie studios do this a lot - they’ll have their smaller production houses make movies that compete for awards and then the larger big budget companies make the blockbusters that subsidize the other stuff. Same with book publishing. Big publishing houses probably lose money on most of their literary National Book Award-chasing titles, but the prestige is worth it, if not subsidized by the more mass market books they put out.
notahacker 4y ago
A Sunday issue of a broadsheet arguably fits the bill. A normal newspaper and 4x the volume in additional supplements with lightweight content about travel, housing and movies to wrap ads around, sometimes with an insert or two entirely produced by a sponsor. Of course, they started off with news and diversified into lots of sub-papers that pay bills rather than the other way round and their travel listicles are marginally more highbrow than Buzzfeed and there's an argument the format is slowly dying, but the basic concept is the same. Same goes with the commercially successful online version of the UK's Daily Mail having a huge amount of online-only lightweight celebrity content in a clickbait sidebar sitting alongside its more right–wing campaigning style reporting

IshKebab 4y ago

Why didn't they brand it differently then?

MSFT_Edging 4y ago
Its been fairly common knowledge for years that "Buzzfeed News" was an actual reporting arm. The question you pose insinuates that you assume "Fox News" is mostly Simpsons and Family Guy reporting.
- hobo_in_library 4y ago
  Wait, "Fox News" has legitimate reporting too?
  - gtk40 4y ago
    Wikipedia considers Fox News thusly: "There is consensus that Fox News is generally reliable for news coverage on topics other than politics and science." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...