The internet is vile and beautiful, awful and awesome. It has completely warped, ruined, and improved the news economy, and I wouldn’t be writing this without it. The Dispatch wouldn’t exist to publish me. Tablet couldn’t have given me a fellowship. My scribblings would’ve remained in a leather-bound notebook, never reaching the eyes of others, were it not for blogging on Medium.
The Flooded Zone
Review of ‘Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral’ by Ben Smith.

Ben Smith, shown here in the newsroom at BuzzFeed headquarters, December 11, 2018. in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Ben Smith, shown here in the newsroom at BuzzFeed headquarters, December 11, 2018. in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)



