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BuzzFeed vs Gawker, AI’s impact on the future of media, and more with Semafor’s Ben Smith | E1733

This Week in Startups

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The History of Advocacy Journalism

I think that there's an obvious history here of journalism and journalists covering the first wave of tech sometimes in a very promotional way. For a variety of reasons, to me, the main one is Donald Trump selection, turning incredibly adversarial. And then I do think the sort of, how did we get Trump produced a wave of journalism that looked for culprits? By the way, I think Facebook screwed a lot of stuff up.

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