Dude I don't have time to hold out unrealistic hope on things that will save TF2, the Pyro update is almost here

I mean yes alfa, Breitbart IS a legitimate news organization. Legitimate meaning they employ journalists who write real stories about world issues and current events, etc. They happen to be INCREDIBLY biased, but they're a news organization. I don't see the material they produce as worth reading, but it's because I have gone to their site, I have read their news and their articles, and I have decided that it is too slanted and biased for me to read.

With Buzzfeed, it's not that people are going and reading the stories and making a fair decision, saying "No this is not for me, it's too _____", it's normally that they see the name Buzzfeed and just go LOL NOT NEWS and liken it to a Nigerian prince email scam

I guess my main point was to address people who call Buzzfeed bullshit without even looking, those who say to themselves "LOL WTF they don't have news, it's Buzzfeed". Regardless of the fact that they sometimes use dumb headlines and yeah, some of the shit they write about is disappointing trash, it is indeed a news organization.

But that's off-track from the main point, which is that I don't think it makes any sense to point the finger at Buzzfeed here and say they're grossly negligent or to say "they're part of the mainstream FAKE media" or whatever the line that those kids used was. They contacted the tournament people before publishing the story, and were told the reason the team was rejected. They also had documents and screenshots that showed discussions that were had, etc. To say they didn't do any research or due diligence is crazy, especially when the entire situation was cooked up as a SICK PRANK in the first place.

Team pretends to be trans because (probably) "LOL TRANS PEOPLE", is denied tournament entry because they can't produce female passports, sends these details and chat logs to Buzzfeed who publishes the story, then says BUZZFEED IS FAKE NEWS AND GROSSLY NEGLIGENT. It's the dumbest shit. YOU fucking misled them. Yeah maybe if someone Googles your team name and watches your YouTube videos, they can hear some of you talking about being manly and say "Hmm maybe they're not trans because trans people wouldn't talk about being manly" but that is so outside the purview of a journalist's job. I speak as a former journalist. I'm fact checking, I'm not going to sit down and watch a team's videos for clues when their website that I just visited blared ridiculous sounds at me and wants you to shoot a picture of a black person on their website in order to show any content at all. If a team comes to me and says they're trans, I am not going to ask myself "Are they ACTUALLY trans? I need to hunt for clues because maybe they're just guys."

If people look at this and say "Yes these nice young men are absolutely right, fake news is awful. Sad." then it just tells me a lot about their ability to think in a critical and unbiased way. Which is fine. It's a free country. These are obviously just idiot 4chan kids who like sick LULZ, not revolutionary thinkers who want to open peoples' eyes to the atrocities of media or some shit.

You're showing me that you aren't paying any attention

Buzzfeed News does legitimate news. They have legitimate journalists with White House credentials doing real work, and publishing journalism that is not crazy or incredibly slanted. i.e. here here here and on and on

Now since I posted in this thread last night, I learned that unfortunately, it seems like they also still publish a lot of clickbaity shit under their News banner. As I posted earlier in this thread, Buzzfeed separated their News and Entertainment divisions last August. I don't really look at their news ever, but I assumed this also meant they didn't write dumb cringey shit under their News section. Unfortunately, it seems like they still do somewhat.

But they do also produce ACTUAL news - it's just that people see "Buzzfeed" and immediately say "Oh this will be shit" and don't bother to look. Again, I think a rebrand would be good but I'm not the boss.

This might make sense to you, but making a YouTube video about white power and acting like idiot 4chan kids doesn't have anything to do with whether someone is trans or not. There's no connection there. A journalist or editor wouldn't see a YouTube video of kids trolling and go "Oh okay they're not trans, they troll people. Trans people don't troll."

believing invite roster moves before you see proof on the team page

To play devil's advocate here, the goal of all businesses is to provide value for shareholders. The same would therefore be true of any and all news organizations. That's reality.

Also worth noting that Buzzfeed News is operated separately from the web listicle shit. The company re-organized last August, splitting their News and Entertainment divisions. Do they need a new name to stop people from thinking they're all idiots? Absolutely. Are they totally unbiased or perfect? Not at all. Are they legitimate as a news organization? Absolutely yes.

that's fair but

google the team name yourself

tell me if the results you find would indicate to a journalist "these are not trans people like they're claiming"

their website itself is.. just fucked up and devoid of content. they have a YouTube channel which doesn't really offer anything else in the way of clues. the rest of the results are recipes and restaurants. it's not like their website says "Hey! We're a bunch of non-trans dudes who are boys"

it's not blatant negligence, or some great AHA gotcha moment on journalists whatsoever. if the Google results for the team were full of like.. player profiles that mention them not being trans or articles about them pranking people in the past it'd be a little different. but a Google search reveals very little else in the way of details.

stupidest shit i've ever heard

cool prank, you did it. tournament organizers didn't google your team name to see if you were possibly shit disturbers entering as a joke, so they're the retards. gotcha.

Great opinion! Good opinion! Thanks for the opinion! You certainly seem like a smart young person and I admire your opinions. I value your opinions and your ability to think critically before you say things! P.S funny posts lol i liked your funny attitude anyway bye

What relevance does this have to anything at all

Remember also that some people paid Valve money (way too much) for unlocks directly through the Mann Co Store

i mean unless it's you getting fired for saying nigger 50 times on stream because you're upset

i'm sure you're all great in real life.. maybe you're not, but i'm tired of all your shit online honestly, and of the people posting similar shit

keep it in the garbage, leave, go back to r/theredpill, whatever. what's the age cut-off for this type of shitposting? for real

i guess if you're 16 people will just have to put up with you, but some of you are in your 20's

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