via TechCrunch:
Historically, high journalism has largely been subsidized by low journalism. Nowadays, though, the two are increasingly decoupled, largely because we can get the latter online in unlimited quantities. BuzzFeed is the poster child of this movement, partly because of its undeniable success, partly because it is to low journalism what high-fructose corn syrup is to chocolate, as satirized by, er, The Onion. BuzzFeed is little more than a superbly engineered machine for turning animals, animated GIFs, and repackaged Reddit threads into pageviews. It’s almost pure sugar water.
I’ve been asked on a few occasions online and off why I don’t click any links to Buzzfeed or link to them myself. This is the reason why. The Onion, a spoof of our culture is high-quality content. BuzzFeed and services like it are glorified Tumblr-blogs where a person curates a lot of content, gives it an SEO-able title and the Internet retweets the crap out of it.
BuzzFeed is not worth reading and is diluting the word “news”