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BuzzFeed wants to be journalism, and they're making a noticeable effort to paint themselves as journalists. They have a DC bureau. They have a White House corre
by hodgesmr 12y ago
BuzzFeed wants to be journalism, and they're making a noticeable effort to paint themselves as journalists. They have a DC bureau. They have a White House correspondent. They have field reporters. They have political editors. They even fire reporters for plagiarism[1]. Anecdotally, I know many people that have told me they "go to BuzzFeed for the lists but end up staying and reading the news."
[1]: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/editors-note-an-apology-to-our-readers http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/editors-note-an-apology-to-...
- jackowayed 12y agoExactly. Think of them like a television network. A major television network (eg. CBS) airs both in-depth news coverage, trashy reality shows, fictional comedies/dramas, and sports. More and better timeslots go to things other than news, those shows are advertised more, and the most successful non-news shows have more viewers than the nightly news, but the presence of those other shows doesn't mean that it's fair to say CBS doesn't do journalism.
- hodgesmr 12y agoAnd yet we're talking about online publications. There's a reason we have CBS.com and CBSNews.com. And ABC.com and ABCNews.com. And NBC.com and NBCNews.com. If websites behaved like television--with different content available at different times--your analogy would be stronger. But they don't. It's all there all the time. And for that reason, BuzzFeed's crap is much harder to separate from any "real" content.
- acomjean 12y agoAnd Buzzfeed reporters are being interviewed on NPR about Ukraine (I think) and other serious world locations.
- seanp2k2 12y ago"Top 10 reasons why Ukraine is in more trouble than you think"