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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

A veteran reporter on how to fix the news

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Internet and Its Impact on the Media Landscape

The internet has very dramatically changed the landscape in all kinds of ways, but curiously, it didn't really change the core incentives driving the press. The competition for clicks and attention just intensified, so it kind of brought out the worst impulses and amplified them. I think through our history, there's always been a balance between the breadth and the focus," he says.

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