BuzzFeed News is not BuzzFeed. They've won many journalism awards as you can see on their Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News
I do agree that reusing the name must surely do their image significant harm.
I do agree that reusing the name must surely do their image significant harm.
I have no interest in debating the nature of BuzzFeed News's journalism beyond making this distinction clear.
The "old internet" is MySpace and Friendster? Really?
"Click share if you think Google and Facebook are bad" pretty much summarizes the contents of the article.
> The media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found that in 100 Buzzfeed stories about Barack Obama in 2016 (most from Buzzfeed News, but also from the general BuzzFeed site), 65 were positive, 35 were neutral, and one was critical. The report called Buzzfeed's coverage of Obama "creepy" and "almost uniformly uncritical and often sycophantic".
I do wonder how BuzzFeed(News) rises the HN ladder though. The only benefit I see to having content like this here is to display what opinions some demographic of people consume and believe.
Does seem a bit ironic that BuzzFeed would be complaining about the death of the Internet.
1st sentence: BuzzFeed News is an American news website published by BuzzFeed.
2nd sentence: It has published a number of high-profile scoops, including the Trump–Russia dossier, for which it was heavily criticized
Also, "journalism awards" are as impressive as participation trophies. Pretty much X amount of awards are alotted to X number of news/broadcast companies with the "right attitude" anyways.
More like several, and no high-prestige awards. They've also published several incorrect stories and hold the dubious honor of being the only publication Robert Mueller called out for publishing incorrect information as fact while he was still investigating.
The point is, they are Bloomberg / Politico / Huffington Post tier, not WaPo / NYT / WSJ / BBC tier or even The Atlantic / CNN / Fox / MSNBC tier.