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Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong by mortenjorck on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:53PM (#20906450)
> You call buzzfeed journalists?

This comes up every time with a Buzzfeed News investigative piece. Honestly, I don’t know why they kept the name when they launched their actual journalism org; it’s kind of like starting a legitimate, old-school blood testing laboratory under the Theranos name.

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Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong by comicjk on Saturday September 07, 2019 @05:48PM (#20906767)
I said this to a blue-check journalist (Max Rosenthal) on Twitter, and he mocked me for it. But I still think it's true. The name BuzzFeed is just not helpful.
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Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong by tgsovlerkhgsel on Saturday September 07, 2019 @07:58PM (#20907536)
Ironically, at this point, I associate Buzzfeed more with their reputable, high quality journalism than their clickbait.
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Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong by sergiomattei on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:44PM (#20906407)
Before you dismiss their reporting...

BuzzFeed News is a new branch of the company, with its own autonomy from the whole thing.

They have Pulitzer-winning staff in there, and their investigative reporting is actually quite good.

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Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong by GordonS on Saturday September 07, 2019 @06:36PM (#20907105)
I agree, but WTF did they keep the name "BuzFeed", which has such a poor standing?
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Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong by ch_123 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:32PM (#20906335)
By that logic, all current affairs investigations must be politically motivated.
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Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong by freyr on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:56PM (#20906465)
Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are not one in the same, and Buzzfeed News does do real journalism. See, for example, this series of articles on Vladimir Putin's ties to a killing campaign on British and American soil:

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news

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