Hey everyone, it's me, John Favreau. I'm so excited to share with you an episode of my brand new

weekly series, Offline with John Favreau, which can be found in the PODSEV America feed.

If you ever feel like the internet is breaking our brains, but you still can't put your phone down,

this show might help. Every Sunday, I'll sit down for an intimate conversation with people

like Monica Lewinsky, Megan Rapinoe, and Dorem McKesson to talk about how we can live better in

our hyper-connected world and maybe inoculate ourselves from the worst of it. I think you're

going to love this show, so to find more episodes of Offline, be sure to follow PODSEV America on your

favorite podcast app. Okay, now let's get into the episode. Enjoy. Part of it is just not fucking going

on the internet all the time. Can everyone just shut the fuck up about everything for like one

second? Right? Like I must issue my statement on this news development. It's like I, Jeremy Smith

have decided to make my endorsement. It's like, R.T. If you agree. I'm John Favreau. Welcome to Offline.

Hi there. Our guest this week is Peter Hamby, and he's here to talk about what the internet has

done to journalism. Peter's a good friend of mine who started out as a political reporter at CNN,

and now hosts Good Luck America, a show about news and politics on Snapchat that reaches nearly

six million people per episode. He also helped found a new media startup called Puck, where he writes a

column called The Powers the Beat. Most of you know that I've been an amateur media critic for a long

time now. It's one of the reasons we started Cricket in the first place. But even though I spend

way too much time yelling about bad headlines and annoying stories, I don't actually think that

individual journalists and editors are the main reason so many people don't trust the media

anymore. I think there are a lot of destructive incentives in media right now. Some of them are

financial, and a lot of them have to do with the fact that most journalism now happens online.

I think this pushes journalists to prioritize hot takes over actual reporting. I think it pushes

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