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It's fresh news, but it is shallow. Quality reporting requires dedication and resources, something some news organizations had under one roof. It's hard to see how that very necessary element in our society will be kept around in the longer term. The 5th estate has a very important function and without it our societies will no doubt be poorer.

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You might be interested to know that Buzzfeed seems to be doing investigative reporting now

I just checked out their homepage, let's just say that isn't exactly evident from the content there.

I'm going to assume your comment was sarcastic unless there is some proof to the contrary.

Some samples:

Oh, boy.

34 of the best products from shark tank.

23 texts that will make you laugh way harder than they should.

How much do you actually know about drugs?

Find awesome gifts for friends and family.

27 Ingenious Hacks Every College Student Needs To Know (food, laundry and pooping).

Any of those links qualify as investigative reporting?

They did indeed have an investigative unit, but it was recently poached by CNN: http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/10/cnn-hires-away-b...

e: I don't recall any of their articles specifically, but I do recall reading a few solid articles via Instapaper and then being surprised to see that they were from BuzzFeed.

Pooping hacks you say?

No, they say.

Buzzfeed, who are way up my shit list for clickbait crap, have nonetheless done some phenomenally good reporting on the TPP and ISDS issue, including multi-part deep coverage.

You've got to dig for the good stuff, but it actually is there.

That report was alarmist, factually wrong in some places, and draw some ridiculous conclusions.

How, specifically?

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