{"id":2063,"date":"2019-01-31T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2019-01-31T01:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:19:33","slug":"buzzfeed-falters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2019\/01\/31\/buzzfeed-falters\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzfeed falters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzfeed is one of the more popular online &#8220;news&#8221; services. Despite reported revenue of $300 million in 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2019\/01\/in-the-latest-sign-things-really-are-dire-buzzfeed-is-laying-off-15-percent-of-its-staff\/\">it has had to lay off 220 people<\/a>. It is feared that the layoffs will harm the news gathering and investigative personnel investments made by the company. This has often been the trend in online &#8220;news&#8221; services causing them to resort to more opinion than news.<\/p>\n<p>We already have too much opinion and too often this opinion is accepted as news. The free\/ad-supported model of the Internet moving in this direction will leave us all less informed and probably more misinformed. This is what you get for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzfeed is one of the more popular online &#8220;news&#8221; services. Despite reported revenue of $300 million in 2018. it has had to lay off 220 people. It is feared that the layoffs will harm the news gathering and investigative personnel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2019\/01\/31\/buzzfeed-falters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}