"The BuzzFeed "pivot" away from podcasts makes sense when you remember that BuzzFeed lives and dies as a business on
detailed analytics. Web content has them. Video has them. Podcasts still don't."
In my opionion this is exactly what BuzzFeed lacks and what a lot of podcasts allow.
To the author's point, I suppose one can make a strong case that too many podcasts are merely low or zero-information commentary.
But, yeah, why the author decided to relate that statement to race, I can only guess. What did that add, journalistically, to the overall piece, which wasn't really about race?
Perhaps, as the Internet diversifies, the podcast scene hasn't diversified accordingly. It was definitely a jarring sentence, but the observation is not inaccurate and worth considering.
It’s not possible that the author’s assertion is based on any observation. It is a pure exposure of prejudicial assumption, and for me personally, wholly false.
