Claire Bond Potter discusses her book Political Junkies
(7/23/20) With fake news on Facebook, trolls on Twitter and viral outrage everywhere, it's easy to believe that the Internet changed everything about American politics. But in her latest book \u201cPolitical Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy\u201d New School for Social Research professor and political historian Claire Bond Potter reveals that the roots of today's dysfunction go back much further. Join us for an exploration of how our media ecosystem got so polluted in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.