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by rtpg 4082 days ago
there's a lot of listicles but it drives some high-quality journalism.

Check out this amazing article covering the writing of the AUMF after 9/11 http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-w...

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The listicles are the man source of clicks, both for BuzzFeed itself and the people writing articles like "You won't BELIEVE these TWENTY TERRIBLE ARTICLES BuzzFeed is running RIGHT NOW!"

Add a little bit of "Internet: Threat Or Menace?" bias from the people whose audience is skewing older faster than the general population and BuzzFeed is now terrible beyond words.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/09/05/tv...