Reality catches up with early ideals of digital news

Ben Smith, author of the newly published “Traffic,” talks with Alex Wagner about expectations for the ambitious internet news media of the early 2000s failed to anticipate the perversion of social media and the rise of figures like Donald Trump. 
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