Ep. 136 - Ben Smith

Ep. 136 - Ben Smith

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Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, talks with David Axelrod about BuzzFeed’s approach to journalism and how he responds to the organization’s critics, why Donald Trump has reenergized the news media, why BuzzFeed decided to publish the Trump dossier without verifying its claims, and how the Clinton campaign in 2016 overcompensated for its mistakes in 2008.