Another fun nugget from ex-New York Times’ editor Jill Abramson’s book Merchants of Truth, which has been plagued by accusations of blatant plagiarism: She apparently referred to John Stanton, who was BuzzFeed’s DC bureau chief, as looking like an “ex-convict.” Read Stanton’s thread about how fucked that is.
Jonah Peretti, who has for years fought union drives at BuzzFeed, now says he wants a bunch of media companies to merge...so that they can take on powerful interests...as a unified group. Some might say he’s a huge hypocrite with no self-awareness, but I would never.