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I wonder if there was ever a time in history where it was okay to just run a business and make some money.
The majority of businesses still work that way. VC backed companies are outliers but they are in the press a lot.
IIRC, I was introduced to Vice with their fascinating coverage of North Korea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24R8JObNNQ4 (first trip - Shane Smith was banned from the country as a result) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrCQh1usdzE (second trip years later, where they got in under the guise of a Basketball game) Unfortunately it's been increasingly hit or miss ever since and now their process seems to be along thes…
yes, i was the same way. my interest was sustained by simon ostrovsky's dispatches from the war in ukraine as well as the gonzo documentary hijinks of david choe's quest to hitchhike across the US. they have fallen a very long way since then. i stopped reading them a few years ago when it was clear they were unapologetically trash.
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Buzzfeed started with clickbait trash, then hired investigative journalists to do some good journalism and winning awards (two time Pulizer finalist) Now they are cutting people from the low effort side but keeping the investigative journalism intact. It's interesting business model. Produce cheap trash in large volumes to people who consume it and to do little real journalism on side. It really confuses people becau…
Buzzfeed cut their whole national security desk. Doesn't seem consistent that the claim that they're "cutting people from the low effort side". Of course, I wish they were only cutting out clickbait trash, but alas the advertisement machine must be fed.
Vice has really uneven quality among their departments. The main site is all garbage. Motherboard and Vice News are mostly okay. What I think they do best is their TV. Vice News Tonight is extremely good. And their HBO one hour show is also very good.
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your list just show the yearly churn of the news-repost industry (i.e. companies that have zero investigative journalism, needs fresh people to get fresh news sources to repost) vice (not the site) and buzzfeed news (not regular buzzfeed) are a new beatst in the news industry. they sell tailored pieces (pretty much an improved model that wired used to reborn in the 2000s). for example vice got a huge account promotin…
Can you back this up? Vice has put out some surprisingly good field journalism pieces. And Buzzfeed News has produced Pulizter-nominated journalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo "VICE: The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia" https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news
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your list just show the yearly churn of the news-repost industry (i.e. companies that have zero investigative journalism, needs fresh people to get fresh news sources to repost) vice (not the site) and buzzfeed news (not regular buzzfeed) are a new beatst in the news industry. they sell tailored pieces (pretty much an improved model that wired used to reborn in the 2000s). for example vice got a huge account promotin…
Sorry I’m a little confused- are you basically saying Vice will tailor make you a edgy documentary about whatever you want if you pay them enough?