Last week, we spoke with New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjou after he published an article

titled, For two months, I got my news from print newspapers, here's what I learned.

Farhad wrote that quote, in January, after the breaking newsiest year in recent memory,

I decided to travel back in time. I turned off my digital news notifications,

unplugged from Twitter and other social networks,

and subscribed to home delivery of three-print newspapers.

It was a crash diet, lots of healthy analog,

and just a little digital for dessert.

Farhad found the experience so uplifting and liberating,

he was moved to evangelize, as he told me.

I boiled it down into three sort of Michael Pollan-esque little prescriptions.

Get news, not too quickly, and avoid social.

The only problem was, according to analysis by Dan Mitchell in the Columbia Journalism Review

and Joshua Benton of Harvard's Neiman Lab, Farhad spent most of his 48-day diet

sneaking into the fridge.

In the time that he was supposedly unplugged from Twitter news,

he had tweeted hundreds and hundreds of

times. Oops. Farhad, welcome back to On the Media. Hi, it's good to be here. All right, when we

spoke to you last week, you did make a point of distinguishing between being on Twitter and getting your news from Twitter.

But in your piece, you wrote that you were unplugged, not cut back, not in comment-only mode, but unplugged.

Now, this is probably a question I should have asked you a few days ago, but

unplugged?

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