Is media 2017 really handling civil discourse better than media 1998 tho

A strange old link for a strange old Monday — “I dated Monica Lewinsky,” by Jake Tapper (Yep, that one) from the Washington City Paper in 1998 (H/t Allie Owens for the link!). Published almost 20 years (/what feels like a thousand geologic periods) ago, and yet, something about it feels queasily familiar, as if it was just lifted off a Twitter thread th…