Gist: Is Amazon a Monopoly?




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Summary: Hosting today’s Gist is <a href="https://twitter.com/radiosmith">Robert Smith</a> from <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/money/">NPR’s <em>Planet Money</em></a>. <br>On the show, he’ll talk to <a href="https://twitter.com/linamkhan">Lina Khan</a>, whose research encouraging tighter regulations on Amazon caught some heat from the company’s general counsel. Khan works at the Open Markets Program, formerly housed under the New America Foundation. <br>And in the Spiel, Robert Smith observes a new trend in broadcast news: reporters becoming heroes on live television. What could possibly go wrong?