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Matt Bai and Matt Miller: Has the Media’s Obsession With Scandal Ruined American Politics?

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How did politicians' private lives become public, and how did politics become fodder for the tabloids? In a discussion with Matt Miller, Yahoo News national political columnist Matt Bai, author of All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, used the scandal that took down presidential candidate Gary Hart in 1987 to discuss the American media's obsession with sex, and how it's changed our democracy.