The end of BuzzFeed exceptionalism?

We’ll never not read hot takes on the media/tech world when it’s from Slate’s Will Oremus, and his latest analysis of what happened at BuzzFeed over the past week is a good one: ie., there’s a reason why one company’s laying off of 15% of its workforce in a notoriously shaky industry felt abnormally outsized and tragic.

That is, to readers and its own s…