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# Face it: cats have always had a place in news
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2016/04/cats-are-news/
- Published: 2016-04-23T13:23:44.000Z
- Updated: 2016-04-23T13:23:44.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: cats, Journalism

[Why BuzzFeed’s Exploding Watermelon Won’t Destroy Journalism](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/journalism-future-buzzfeed-watermelon-new-york-times-stories-cats-213820?ref=onemanandhisblog.com#ixzz46ehIKe1d)

Next time you hear a journalist criticise an online-only outlet for its cat gifs, bear in mind that the *New York Times* got there first:

> The paper documents a *Times*ian obsession to all things feline that makes BuzzFeed’s devotion to kitty videos seem restrained. With the exception of the 1950s and the 1960s—which another academic called a period of “high modernism” in which the *Times* dealt its readers mostly “accurate, ‘unbiased’ information about public affairs”—the paper has doted on cats over the past century.