From the unionized workers at Buzzfeed:
A little more than a year ago, we lost about 20% of our newsroom colleagues to unexpected layoffs. Going through that again — in the middle of a pandemic — would be devastating. We’re ready and eager to negotiate a better alternative.
— BuzzFeed News Union ✊ (@bfnewsunion) May 12, 2020
Losing a newsroom job now isn’t just a temporary setback. For many colleagues let go, this could be the end of their careers in journalism — all the more calamitous when the work journalists do has never been more important.
— BuzzFeed News Union ✊ (@bfnewsunion) May 12, 2020
Buzzfeed isn’t journalism.
It’s a bunch of hard-Leftist Millenial hacks spawned in a fetid pool of swamp water from a website best known for cat memes.
Nobody wants to pay for the bullshit that they are peddling because you can get the same virtue signaling, grievance-mongering, dishonesty for free on countless other websites.
That this might be the last career in journalism that these people have is arguably a good thing.
Not to mention that many of us get laid off or have other setbacks and have to reboot our careers in new fields. I’ve done it twice.
If I were prone to writing Buzzfeed style headlines, I’d title this piece:
“Entitled asshole Acela bubble internet pundits angry they are experiencing suffering that they dismissed for millions of people in flyover country.”
Since the last recession, ~30,000 journalism jobs vanished. Journalists laid off today will likely be unemployed for months and likely, by necessity, have to find employment in other fields. A lay-off now would effectively end a career in journalism. We have to save jobs. https://t.co/rXzjQVQXv5
— Venessa Wong (@venessawong) May 13, 2020
Fuck ’em.
These people need to go pump septic tanks or dig ditches for a while. Something useful for society that is more in line with their skill set, or lack there of.
Maybe after doing some work harder than vomiting up a piece that form fits whatever progressive, identity politics bromides they learned in school to whatever current situation they have been assigned to write about, from the comfort of their tine, overpriced apartment, they will develop some empathy.
Or they have an industrial accident and get turned into a paste by some piece of heavy machinery because they arrogantly thought they knew what they were doing.
Either is fine by me.
#LearnToCode
Karma. LOL!
I just visited that buzzfeed site in the UK, To be fair it doesn’t seem overly globohomo mainly just gossipy nonsense aimed at women, not like the BBC with the frizzy haired smiling black woman in every picture but a white hand holding the knife and all the other usual corny rubbish. Maybe buzzfeed is different in the USA.
I propose we treat journalists like the endangered species they think they are. Put an ear tag on ’em, drop ’em naked in the Idaho wilderness and let them compete with the (reintroduced) wolves for food and territory.
See also:
Clickbait Serfdom for those who thought they were going to move to New York and join the Literati Glamour set. Then would up living in overpriced closets and writing the literary equivalent of junk food.
Which makes the fall of the smug little gits oh so sweet.