Posted on Jan 12, 2017
Why the Buzzfeed debacle damaged journalism and handed Trump a gift
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Journalistic standards were bent to the breaking point by buzzfeed on this one. Will main-stream media journalists pull themselves back from the brink and stop trying to compete with blogs and 'feeds'?
Why the Buzzfeed debacle damaged journalism and handed Trump a gift
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Internet
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Let's be honest here. Fox has been pulling the same bullshit for years by spending whole shows talking about rumors as if they were fact. Hell, Trump himself loved to use "People are saying..." on the campaign trail.
But no, Buzzfeed should not have published the contents of that dossier w/o any verification whatsoever.
But no, Buzzfeed should not have published the contents of that dossier w/o any verification whatsoever.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
Yes, Fox, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, they've all gravitated away from hard news and toward rumor-mongering. That's essentially the question...will this trend continue or be reversed?
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SGT Jeremiah B.
Col Joseph Lenertz - Probably not. The internet changed everything. The time frame of being "first to break" got extraordinarily shorter. That said, I'm not too terribly bothered when it's pointed at someone who used that tactic regularly and without apology. My parents would have said it was getting a taste of his own medicine.
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No, they will not pull themselves back. In their minds there’s no such thing as bad publicity. That’s where they live.
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Buzzed is Little more than a Bunch of opinionated journalist amateurs Trying to be something they will never become and a realistic news source...
they are appealing to all the off the wall fringe and leftist and progressive conspiracy hacks... they love starting trouble ad then applying the constitution freedoms to protect them selves...
they are appealing to all the off the wall fringe and leftist and progressive conspiracy hacks... they love starting trouble ad then applying the constitution freedoms to protect them selves...
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