i underestimated the extent to which ag is, like, people love deception. It was just so revealingke, you know, when the emperor doesn't have any clothes. And i think it did sort of reveal things about the people who fell for it. There were ome great stories in asi that did that but the over a brand was basically diversity with no conflict. But i think if that felt too good to be true, it was.
Ben Smith is the media columnist for The New York Times. He was the founding editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
”I do think there's some kind of personality flaw deep in there of wanting to like, you know, find stuff out and tell people.... I'm not sure that's a totally sane or healthy personality trait, but it is definitely, for me, a personality trait…. I think that in political reporting, certainly, there's a kind of reporter who thinks that their job is basically to pull the masks off of these monsters. And I generally tend to think all these people—with some exceptions—are weird and complicated and often doing really awful things. But they aren't necessarily irredeemable or impossible to understand…. They're interesting.”
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