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Buzzfeed pioneered scraping “news” from Tumblr, which opened the floodgates for citing chans. It’s all gonna be so weird by 2025.

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Two things I've been drilling into reporters' heads for decades now:

"If your mother says she loves you, check it out."

Also, ALWAYS CONTACT THE SUBJECT OF THE STORY FOR COMMENT.

Gawker failed on both.

Another Default banger.

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Yes, said my father, who worked as a journalist before even I was born.

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If u haven’t been mentioned on Lolcow as a “Dasha wannabe” ur nobody honey 💅🏼

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Any news is good news, I guess. Very Trumpian: even bad publicity is, you know, publicity.

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