Buzzfeed seems to engender pretty strong feelings all around. Mostly the criticism was
from the right during the election, but I'm seeing grumbling
from the left lately as well.
I cautioned last February
not to underestimate BuzzFeed Politics, which is an emerging force in news and uses cats to maximum effect. Despite my tongue-in-cheek post,
5 Signs BuzzFeed May Have Peaked, I'm not really seeing the engine slowing down. They have a lot of dollars, very talented staff, and they
have me pegged.
One thing that has caught my eye recently was that Buzzfeed lured in conservative readers through its Community section. Yes, conservative readers.
It must be some kind of Sun Tzu military theory: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
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(Buzzfeed: Some of our best friends are Conservative)[/caption]
I first noticed that when two of the best listicles I've seen from the conservative side showed up at Buzzfeed.
The first,
16 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Life Before Birth by National Right to Life on August 27, was highlighted here
National Right to Life hits home run where it counts, Buzzfeed:
