New Media Changed The World And We Aren't Immune
It would be weird if it upended whole societies, exacerbated mental-health crises, and crushed attention spans, but had no effect on U.S. politics
When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 on the strength of a media feeding frenzy over emails, it dawned on me that either my intuitions about partisan politics had been wrong, or something fundamental had changed. With the benefit of hindsight, I soon came to see the 2014 midterm camp…