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I absolutely agree that it serves an important civic & moral purpose, but that is precisely why journalism needs to adopt new technology to reach people on thei

• jmathai 12y ago
  I'm not seeing how BuzzFeed is adopting new technology nor how adopting new technology is what journalism needs. I see BuzzFeed as a company that's found a way to exploit people's pull towards instant gratification. But it serves a terrible purpose which has short term benefits for the company but little benefit for others. They're similar to payday loan companies. Many argue that they're meeting a market need. They maybe but they're doing it in an exploitative way. That's bad for everyone.