Do you want me to pull up every article? Its not Buzzfeed, its the media/journalists. I believe one of them said coding was a blue collar job now and beneath them, more or less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoohuBQgbQU

Yea, no. This was centrally directed by 4chan and explicitly targeted at the individuals laid off buzzfeed and huffpost.

Like any profession or trade there will be individuals more skilled than others, and individuals more honest than others; although not always both at the same time. As it stands your eagerness to paint all journalists with the same brush is likely causing people to (consciously or otherwise) discount your argument outright. Even worse; a certain subset of the population is going to be actively antagonized by this language because it so closely resembles language used by a politician that they have very strong negative animus towards.

Would your disdain for an entire profession be as vigorous if the layoffs were occuring en masse at Breitbart or Fox News?

I wouldn't care because they're just as biased.

Buzzfeed and to a large degree HuffPo was a clickbait outrage yellow journalist organization. They make news for ratings, not to inform, they go for outrage.

If it was were the AP or Bloomberg or some org that reported primarily the information and facts of a matter, I might be concerned.

There are some good journalists being let go, but they'll likely land on their feet. But I'm not upset that Buzzfeed or HuffPo are slowly going under. They do more harm for democracy and an informed populace than good.

You say lead by 4chan. Do you know how 4chan works? Did you watch the video, its not just 4chan. Besides, 4chan is just a bunch of trolls, why would you get upset as a public figure, by trolls. Twitter is a cancerous cesspool, like 4chan, if you don't want to read that stuff, just stay off of it. You shouldn't take it seriously, but I do agree that journalists can be callous towards others in the same situation then suddenly incredibly sympathetic when its happening to themselves.

I do know how 4chan works. It's a very well trodden trope that 4chan is easily manipulated, rushes to conclusions on impartial or inaccurate information, and has a predisposition towards group think that very often will contrive ways in which 4chan users can exert influence on other parts of the internet through sheer numbers. (online polls, brigading vote based aggregators, DDOS attacks)

Yes, but you also described groups on Twitter and reddit, which makes it hard to pin down where its all coming from. There is no lead by 4chan, 4chan has no leader, 10-100 people on a thread on 4chan isn't "lead" by 4chan, its more likely the larger portion doesn't care, and doesn't participate. So if some are from 4chan, some are from reddit, some see it happening on Twitter and decide to join in, why do you think its entirely 4chan lead or that its everyone or even the majority of people on 4chan? Again, still, don't feed the trolls. Reacting to it is what the trolls want, and you'd think they'd know better by now than to react. Instead something that happens on the Internet everyday (something that isn't even that bad, like telling someone to learn to code), is being made into another thing to write another fake outrage clickbait piece to create a controversy where there is barely notable that no one cares about and people wonder why these companies are going under. They just want to put the blame entirely on one platform they dislike, because that's what's fashionable for outrage clickbait.

If their version of harassment is some trolls telling them to "learn to code" that's just more of the overly dramatic, hyperbolic reporting that got me to discount them as legitimate news to begin with, and if anything makes me feel like laying them off was probably the right choice.

Central direction is redundant. No response could be more obvious than "Learn to code!".