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like obviously i hate buzzfeed and would never work at a place that has such a large hand in destroying serious journalism but i cannot deny that it would be literally the sweetest gig of all time. work in an office with a bunch of other hungover 29 year olds, screenshot posts made by 16 year olds on tumblr who are funnier and smarter than i am and call it an article complete with my own byline, and finish off my day by getting drunk on camera and being paid to do it. that’s the fucking life babey

Buzzfeed News’s journalism is actually pretty solid–they’re the ones that broke the now-infamous Steele Dossier for example. The problem is that, to fund their serious journalism, they also run a clickbait site (plain ol’ Buzzfeed) and people–understandably–confuse their clickbait department and their journalism departments and have a tendency to dismiss the journalism department because of that. But Buzzfeed News is actually one of the few news organizations participating in serious investigative journalism.

Buzzfeed isn’t *destroying* serious journalism. It’s keeping it alive–by using clickbait bullshit to pay the bills while its reporters do the serious-but-not-lucrative journalism the world needs.

Also remember that Buzzfeed News is the first site to publish the statement from Jane Doe in the Brock Turner trial