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Between layoffs, show cancellations, downsizing, and network shut-downs, some are calling the recent news about the news an all-out “media massacre.” Will this disintegration of outlets cause increased polarization? This week, Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, and Host and Managing Editor of WNYC Studio’s The Takeaway, and Tina Nguyen, National Correspondent, and Founding Partner at Puck, join us to discuss how the people who get the platform to tell the news – and how they tell it – will matter more than ever before.