I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

It's harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the fear that maybe somebody deep-pocketed, you know, with limited resources is going to come after us and can my organization afford to defend me?

Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.