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Former Buzzfeed News head Ben Smith reflects on the outlet's rise and fall, and the current media maelstrom
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The past few weeks have seen news headlines dominated by the people who usually deliver them, with the unexpected exits of big-name TV hosts, Twitter clashing with media outlets, Fox News settling a $787-million dollar lawsuit and Buzzfeed News bidding adieu. Ben Smith, the former Buzzfeed News editor-in-chief and former media columnist for the New York Times joins host Chattopadhyay to make sense of the latest events and the potential political fallout. In his new book Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, Smith looks back at the forces that shaped the media moment we're now all living through.