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Buzzfeed journalism is far from very high quality. It shouldn’t even be called journalism. It’s storytelling. They take huge liberties to leave out information that doesn’t fit their intended narrative.

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Can you list some journalistic outlets that don't do this? Because I can probably find articles by whatever that outlet is that mangle stories to fit business, political, ideological, and other interests. Even when unintentional, stories that depend on complex information are often dumbed-down and result in incomplete, inaccurate narrative. Not to mention the benefit of hindsight, and important sources whose additions or subtractions substantially change the result.

Can you list any journalistic outlets that have a CEO that openly talks about how they only publish information that fits a venn-diagram of "What Do People Care About" and "What is the Brand Message"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pr-s-6dEEk

Before anyone starts claiming this only happens to BuzzFeed and not BuzzFeed News, there's plenty of interviews of him discussing how there should not be any separation of editorial oversight and marketing as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9WWF85Zq4

Journalistic outlets don't typically have CEOs because they never make enough money. They're owned by other companies or rich people, and have other companies that actually generate the revenue, and there's something like a CEO that lords over both that has to balance the making-money part with the journalism part. The only "journalism" that doesn't suffer from bias are ones that never have to worry about money... so basically, school newspapers.

The Federalist

NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, to name a few.

The Chronicle is the only outlet where I could not find clear examples of the biases I listed, but obviously they'll be biased towards certain reporting of news about academia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Criticism_a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post#Criticism_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Editor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Controversies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times#Other_contro...

These are just the "big controversies". They all have stories which slant in particular directions as benefits the paper, its owners, writers and editors.

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