CNN VS BuzzFeed News

Observe how news media treat story like this. https://time.com - first page, main story, no photos https://www.reuters.com - no mention https://apnews.com - first page, 2nd block in list, no photos https://www.nytimes.com - second page, tiny block in list, no photos https://www.washingtonpost.com - second page, tiny block, no photos https://www.theguardian.com/world - no mention https://www.aljazeera.com - first... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

If it's any consolation, it was top billing on cnn.com yesterday, which is where I first saw it. Entire top left of the screen was the woman's face and a huge headline. Now it's buried in a couple lines below the (digital) fold. Source: 5 months ago

Try and force the page by entering a url in the browser such as cnn.com . Also, try loading a full browser and trying to surf. What type of phone are you on? Source: 5 months ago

FWIW, I had to disable the Wipr content filtering on cnn.com to see the web site. Guess I'll get my news fix from wapo.com, now. Source: 5 months ago

I don't know what EasyList or uBlock are (i.e., I don't use those), but I got blocked by cnn.com as well. Firefox on Mac. Turns out it was the "I don't care about cookies" extension (automatically accept consent requests). Once I disabled that for cnn, it worked again. Source: 5 months ago

The terrible part is they completely poisoned the name "buzzfeed" because buzzfeednews.com (not buzzfeed.com) does some amazing journalism. Among other stories they are the ones who received the leaked "FinCen Files" which showed that FinCen (the US govt agency in charge of monitoring suspicious financial transactions) was basically not doing anything and money laundering was freely happening under their watch and... Source: about 1 year ago

Someone shared a post from buzzfeednews.com on r/science. Source: over 1 year ago

But, given that we're trying to separate their garbage content from their news section, I'll take a look at the buzzfeednews.com site. Currently, the top story is, "How Lin-Manuel Miranda Went From Cool to Corny." Again, the Pulitzer story is off in the sidebar, albeit this time around, w/ larger font a picture of the journalists who actually won the award. Under the "Latest News" heading, these are apparently... Source: almost 3 years ago

This is buzzfeednews.com....i mean, its hard to take anything they say as actually happening. Source: almost 3 years ago