Pando Daily, BuzzFeed, and the Verge are tech tabloids, serving their financial masters and poisoning the public discourse #YellowJournalism
.@knowtheory the technical term is "clickbait" and if you're after that I strongly suggest you go here instead: http://clickhole.com
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@bascule That aside Buzzfeed is producing actual journalism. their team includes Pulitzer winners & a lot of data journos i respect. -
@knowtheory their headlines are untruths. That's the kindest I can put it -
@bascule Oh? Which ones? http://www.buzzfeed.com/news <- these seem okay…
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@bascule Should i point out the fact that Buzzfeed hired away@kibblesmith from Clickhole two weeks ago? http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/305021/buzzfeed-hires-clickholes-daniel-kibblesmith/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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