Tucker Rips Buzzfeed for Trump-Russia Dossier: A New York Based Cat Blog That Tried To Do Real News

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CARLSON: "Good evening and welcome to 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' We have seen an awful lot of change during the 2 years Trump has been president. American policy has been completely reordered, but also the American media has changed forever. News organizations that seemed like a big deal just 5 years ago are extinct, some of them are totally forgotten. Those that remain have either degraded themselves beyond recognition like the 'New Yorker' or they have been purchased by Jeff Bezos to conduct unregistered lobbying for Amazon.com like 'The Washington Post.' It's hard to remember that not so long ago America had prestige media outlets. Harvard graduates literally went to work for 'Newsweek' rather than private equity. Not anymore. 'Teen Vogue' now has a news division, and so does a New York-based cat blog called BuzzFeed. If you are an affluent single person in a gentrified part of Brooklyn who likes cats — of course, that's redundant because they all like cats — then you know and love BuzzFeed. When a BuzzFeed headline commands you to 'Stop everything and watch this cat who loves the ocean,' you do. You stop everything and you watch that cat. When BuzzFeed offers one of its trademark cat quizzes, you dutifully take the quiz. What kind of purrsonality does your cat actually have? Or how cat are you? Take this quiz. Meow! You think you know a lot about cats? BuzzFeed knows more. On all questions feline, BuzzFeed is the final authority. But what happens when BuzzFeed tries to do real news? In early 2017 we found out. The site released the now famous Trump dossier, it was a catalogue of salacious and unverified gossip financed by the DNC originally about President-Elect Trump. Many other news outlets, nearly all of them anti-Trump, had seen the dossier but passed on it. It was just too irresponsible to run. But not BuzzFeed. They thought it was purr-fect, meow, so they ran it.”