As my colleague Swapna Krishna put it, «The company is making it harder for legitimate news organizations to share their stories (and thus counter any false narratives), and by doing so, is creating a breeding ground for the fake news it's trying to stamp out in the first place.» (engadget.com)
One thing that adds an extra level of irony to the hiring of BuzzFeed's political reporting team is that CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker recently appeared to dismiss BuzzFeed as a journalistic force, implying that it wasn't a «legitimate news organization» and that CNN «crushed» the site with its coverage. (fortune.com)
Oh, how I miss it when CNN was a legitimate news organization, rather than a political ad for the liberal agenda. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)