The top 3 trending topics nationally on this relatively slow news Friday night are all related to the released of Ariana Grande’s new music video, “Thank U, Next”: #ThankUNextVideo, Kris Jenner and Ariana.
#thankunextvideo out now https://t.co/g12C0vVini ? pic.twitter.com/ASST9rmWLs
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) November 30, 2018
Which is why BuzzFeed has the video, which is an homage to the movies “Bring It On,” “Mean Girls” and “Legally Blonde,” featured prominently on its news homepage, which is a problem for CNN’s Oliver Darcy for some reason. He tweeted, “BuzzFeed does a lot of great journalism — so how is this the lead story on BuzzFeed NEWS dot com?”
BuzzFeed does a lot of great journalism — so how is this the lead story on BuzzFeed NEWS dot com? pic.twitter.com/xQgfOyoxlD
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 30, 2018
And Darcy’s criticism isn’t going over very well with BuzzFeed writers and staffers.
LET THE DRAGGING BEGIN…
Deputy Global News Director Ryan Broderick:
things young women care about can also be newsworthy
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) November 30, 2018
BuzzFeed reporter Julia Reinstein:
because it's breaking news Oliver. thank u next on this tweet!!!
— julia reinstein ? (@juliareinstein) November 30, 2018
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Head of Breaking News Tom Namako:
indeed how could one outlet both break news on the Russia investigation and be on top of pop culture breaking news *at the same time*???
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) November 30, 2018
Director of Communications Matt Mittenthal:
just for some context: this was on the front page of the WSJ last year. every serious news outlet has a range of content pic.twitter.com/iA8pWMvcuy
— Matt "very legal & very cool" Mittenthal (@mattmittenthal) November 30, 2018
Politics Editor Matt Berman:
— Matt Berman (@Mr_Berman) November 30, 2018
Sarah Yasin adds a few links from CNN for Darcy to check out since he’s the new Ariana police:
hey oliver https://t.co/qPMv3Dha8Y
— sara yasin ? (@sarayasin) November 30, 2018
sup oliver https://t.co/7oo1kJuDSl
— sara yasin ? (@sarayasin) November 30, 2018
oh look there's more ! https://t.co/eSqyBJ3odH
— sara yasin ? (@sarayasin) November 30, 2018
It’s actually pretty newsworthy and why wouldn’t BuzzFeed cover it?
because it's newsworthy? Did you see just how many people watched the video drop live?? It's been one of the biggest pop culture events of the year!
— Alp Ozcelik (@alplicable) November 30, 2018
They can do both, you know:
Find you a news outlet that can do both ?? https://t.co/zk1QqJxTrEhttps://t.co/fEeWO4i5EF
— Katie Rayford (@katie_rayford) November 30, 2018
And as great as these anti-Darcy tweets are, the addition of this zinger on Chris Cillizza is even better:
CNN does a lot of great journalism — so how is this the lead story on CNN dot com? pic.twitter.com/BVYeYBNUhx
— Tyler Kingkade (@tylerkingkade) November 30, 2018
You can watch the entire video here:
Editor’s note: The headline has been corrected to fix a typo in Oliver Darcy’s name.
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Conservatives POUNCE! Oliver Darcy DRAAAAGS Marc Lamont Hill for anti-Semitic comments … JUST KIDDING https://t.co/PAoiSXRORS
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 30, 2018
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