Not surprisingly, Buzzfeed blows top versions of "old media" --
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the
New Yorker -- out of the water, according to at least one measure of
relevance and audience numbers: average number of times stories are shared on social media, writes Jon Evans. Evans uses those numbers, which he tracked himself, to analyze the state of old and new
journalism today, in a highly opinionated yet interesting post (he's generally not bullish on Buzzfeed, for example, which he calls "little more than a superbly engineered machine for turning animals,
animated GIFs, and
repackaged Reddit threads into pageviews.").
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