Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
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Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#2Which is strange, as Vox and it's child companies usually do a good job of disclosing things like this.
Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#3Pump and ..
Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#4This makes no sense, while Vox might sometimes post video stories on their discover platform, it's not particularly common that they do when compared to other partners such as mashable or buzzfeed.
Regardless, you see similar articles about Snap on websites that don't share any major investors with the company, so this argument doesn't really make sense.
Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#5Being a regular vergecast listener they regularly disclose that the verge which is part of vox is invested by comcast. It's interesting that vox wouldn't when it's other publications do so even when they are just riffing in their podcast.
Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#6Next you guys are going to think the CIA's contract with the owner of the Washington Post is a bad thing.
Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#7Does anyone else deeply distrust Vox? The quality varies a LOT, they frequently present opinions as facts, etc.
The weird thing is they have moments of brilliance like the "Liberal Smugness" piece - but search "Vox News article" and it looks like even the left really hates them.
They seem more interested in telling me how to feel than the facts, I guess. I wish the rest of the world had the same pride in journalism as say, the Economist or the New Yorker
Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#8Does anyone else deeply distrust Vox? The quality varies a LOT, they frequently present opinions as facts, etc. The weird thing is they have moments of brilliance like the "Liberal Smugness" piece - but search "Vox News article" and it looks like even the left really hates them. They seem more interested in telling me how to feel than the facts, I guess. I wish the rest of the world had the same pride in journalism a…
You're not alone in feeling a sense of distrust when reading Vox content. Like Mic, it's more of a finely-tuned fad-amplifying machine than a journalistic outlet. Above all, it seems to prioritize whatever flavor of outrage is popular with the kids at any given moment.
To be fair, though, Mic is almost a bad comparison because of just how much worse it is than Vox. But they certainly are thematically similar.
Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#9Does anyone else deeply distrust Vox? The quality varies a LOT, they frequently present opinions as facts, etc. The weird thing is they have moments of brilliance like the "Liberal Smugness" piece - but search "Vox News article" and it looks like even the left really hates them. They seem more interested in telling me how to feel than the facts, I guess. I wish the rest of the world had the same pride in journalism a…
One of the reasons people seem to have an aversion to Vox's format is that it's not meant to be like the rest of news journalism. When they first announced Vox, it was described as such:
> Vox.com is news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.
So, if you're accustomed to "the noise", I can understand why you might distrust Vox.
Re: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
#10Does anyone else deeply distrust Vox? The quality varies a LOT, they frequently present opinions as facts, etc. The weird thing is they have moments of brilliance like the "Liberal Smugness" piece - but search "Vox News article" and it looks like even the left really hates them. They seem more interested in telling me how to feel than the facts, I guess. I wish the rest of the world had the same pride in journalism a…
One of the reasons people seem to have an aversion to Vox's format is that it's not meant to be like the rest of news journalism. When they first announced Vox, it was described as such: > Vox.com is news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. So, if you're accustomed to "the noise", I can understand why you might distrust Vox.
I wouldn't take the marketing-speak too seriously. Vox is no different than any other pageview-seeking news organization, all of which claim to cut through the noise.
Most "news" these days is just content created to drive page views by discussing hot current events. Vox included.