Mashable's Jim Roberts ‘Outraged’ By Politico Piece on Apocalypsticles

Are social-friendly listicles trafficking on tragedy? Or can they tell a legitimate story about news events like the Ukraine protests?

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*image credit: Sergei Supinsky, Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Politico magazine recently published a piece that criticized social-friendly publishers like Business Insider, BuzzFeed and Mashable for turning the Ukraine protests into clickbait. The content in question? Listicles of apocalyptic pictures from the crisis, or ‘apocalypsticles.’ Sarah Kendzior writes in the piece:

One could charitably see the apocalypsticle as dumbing up. At least the pictures were of the actual people in the conflict, instead of, say, characters from The Hills explaining Syria.

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