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METAPHOR ALERT: BuzzFeed’s NYC office is infested with bed bugs

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I feel like this is a metaphor. https://t.co/KtCHX7IePT — J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) June 22, 2017 If you were to compare BuzzFeed to a dirty motel that you’re too scared to look at what’s on the bedspread with a black light, you’d be correct: Well then. Bed bugs detected at BuzzFeed NYC HQ. Fumigation happening tomorrow, employees asked to WFH "out of abundance of caution" — Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) June 22, 2017 But we must credit BuzzFeed’s own Steven Perlberg for reporting on his own filthy work conditions: […]

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AWAKENINGS: Buzzfeed editor points out who ‘breathed new life’ into media as heads fall to desks

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The election of Donald Trump has certainly made the mainstream media snap back to attention, as Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith admitted last week: BuzzFeed editor @BuzzFeedBen: Trump has "breathed new life" into media https://t.co/4KaVBL2C8r pic.twitter.com/gm92mTjpIn — Josiah Daniel Ryan (@JosiahRyan) April 6, 2017 Better late than never? If only they had that "life" during the past 8 years instead of spending that time swooning. https://t.co/Cr2s9r8C8Y — Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) April 12, 2017 googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display(“div-gpt-300x250_1”); }); Read more: http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2017/04/12/awakenings-buzzfeed-editor-points-out-who-breathed-new-life-into-media-as-heads-fall-to-desks/

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Buzzfeed piece on ‘creeptastic’ David Perdue undergoes multiple corrections

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http://twitter.com/#!/JimmyPrinceton/status/526081255327035392 As Twitchy reported yesterday, American Bridge president Brad Woodhouse pushed to the media a video of what was thought to be Georgia Senate candidate David Perdue signing a young woman’s torso. “We saw something awkward in our footage and gave it to a reporter without comment because we weren’t sure what we had,” Woodhouse tweeted to Politico reporter Dylan Byers. Woodhouse certainly thought he knew what he had, and Buzzfeed ran with it, inspiring readers to call the video of Perdue “weird,” “super awkward” and “creeptastic.” Turns out that […]

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