E347. How the Internet Killed Journalism - Meghan Daum

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Meghan Daum sits down with Bridget to discuss her latest book, The Catastrophe Hour, and the conversation covers everything from aging on camera, to modern existential dread, to the death of quality journalism (RIP, actual editors), the rise of "femcel cope", and pro-natalist propaganda. They discuss Meghan’s decision not to have kids, the grim reality that AI is coming for everyone's job, how we've all become buskers begging for subscription dollars, whether you should get preventative Botox...

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0:00.0	All right, I'm with Megan Dom everybody.
0:02.1	Welcome back to Watkins.
0:03.5	Welcome.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Hey, Bridget.
0:06.2	How are you?
0:07.2	I'm pretty good.
0:09.4	I read your whole book.
0:11.8	Every last essay, Missy.
0:14.1	Thank you.
0:15.3	A catastrophe hour.
0:17.4	Thanks.
0:18.4	What was your favorite one in the book? I kind of like, well, it's hard to say.
0:25.6	So they were written over 10-year period.
0:28.6	And I mean, it is a collection in that the publisher came to me and they said, oh, do you have anything
0:36.6	for us? And I said, how about gather my favorite essays of the last 10 years?
0:41.8	So in a certain way, they're all my favorites because I obviously wrote exponentially more than
0:46.0	this, but these were the kind of the pieces that I wanted to gather.
0:50.4	But the last three essays are brand new.
0:52.8	I have never before been published anywhere. So I kind of like the last three essays are brand new. They have never before been published anywhere.
0:55.3	So I kind of like the last three.
0:58.5	I don't know.
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