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NBCUniversal announced it is doubling its investment in BuzzFeed, pumping another $200 million into the internet media company.
"NBCUniversal made an additional $200M investment to expand the strategic partnership," the companies said in a joint release.
The deepened alliance will center heavily on extending an advertising sales relationship between BuzzFeed and NBCUniversal, which is owned by US cable colossus Comcast.
Comcast invested an initial $200 million in BuzzFeed last year.
NBCUniversal and BuzzFeed have partnered on initiatives including the 2016 Rio Olympics on Snapchat and selling advertising.
"BuzzFeed has helped us engage millennial audiences with our content and extend the reach of our clients' campaigns to new platforms," NBCUniversal president of digital experiences Maggie Suniewick said in the release.
Is NBC trying to get around the damage the American presidential election did to its reputation?
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday November 23 2016, @10:33PM
Just the other day NBC said the Trump admin would not press charges against HRC and so on, essentially they ended up pushing a story saying she would be left alone to "heal" or whatever (*insert clip of healing early-level video game boss here*).
It's bullshit and doesn't even matter (what matters —as with all the other topics— is what has happened after Trump has been in power for a good while, and why and how) but it got picked up by "everybody else" (both mass liar media and "fake" news alike —saw it at both Zerohedge and Gateway Pundit and maybe Drudge too however Superstation95 dodged this one, perhaps, I only read their site I don't listen in but maybe I should). A bit later the NYT (of all places) says Donald Trump personally said to them that they're not stopping any investigations i.e. pretty much the complete opposite of what NBC had said and which mostly everyone else parroted uncritically .
They too could be wrong. They usually are. Please always remember that.
It's time to slap on default disclaimers on anything out of the MLM: Mass Liar Media (previously MSM/"mainstream" but not any longer).
All this stuff is going on for a president who hasn't even been inaugurated yet, everyone should be able to infer their collective panic. They ought to be praying on their knees and hands to every imaginable god that Trump doesn't get assassinated but of course they're doing the exact opposite; they didn't get to where they are because they're smart and it continues to show.
Because Trump is old and white it is somehow supposed to be okay to murder him, just ask that ex-Politico asshole, try to imagine what these same people would say and do if there had been anything close to this kind of reaction —their kind of reaction— to the election of Barack Obama. Actually there's no imagination required, heh.
So there's the obvious bias of the MLM, they're not remotely close to anything neutral and pretty close to die-hard fascist. FOX too from what I gather but a tiny bit less so.
Neither NBC nor NYT nor anybody else should be trusted. Never trust anyone, always be skeptical. Don't pay those assholes any money, ever, it doesn't do any good, it doesn't increase any quality. Cancel or quit if you have any kind of subscription. Personally I try not to refer to them or link to them either; let them stew in their own lies and self-importance.
Take your figurative red pill every day and be careful it's actually red and not just a different kind of blue pill.
Btw as far as for example Infowars (Alex Jones & co.) and Superstation95 goes I think most people are automatically somewhat skeptical or maybe even dismissive, they should embrace that innate skepticism and apply it equally to everything else. A lot of people might already be doing that but some obviously aren't.
P.s. http://www.moonofalabama.org [moonofalabama.org] is nearly always a good read.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @01:12AM
Holy cow. I had no idea you could get WiFi out in the mountains in your bunker.
(Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday November 24 2016, @03:20AM
There's always RONJA [wikipedia.org] but it doesn't like the plumes from my volcano.
(Microwave dish to the rescue!)
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