It's the Brian Laird

show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

With us now, the renowned tech journalist Kara Swisher

with her new memoir called Burn Book,

a tech love story. It's kind of a love hate story really I might describe it as

About the companies and devices we all use constantly but are alienated from at the same time.

The Tech moguls, she has covered for 30 years

who have powered these epic changes in our culture,

and Kara's own changing views on the industry she's covered since the birth of the internet.

Kara Swisher hosts the podcast on with Kara Swisher and co-hosts the podcast

Pivot with her and Scott Galloway.

She appears regularly on CNN,

was a New York Times columnist, as many of you know,

and founder of Recode, among other things.

Kara, thanks for making this one of your stops. Welcome back to

WNYC. Well thank you I'm thrilled to be here and most of my family is

thrilled I'm here because they listen to you all. Oh that's great. Can I start with

the story that some of our listeners may have seen in the New York magazine excerpt from the book in which you describe being a young journalist at the Washington Post like 30 years ago and being relegated to covering this new thing called the internet because the editors saw it as

Fringy a low impact beat what year was that and why were you more interested than your editors at the time?

It was 92 or 93 were you were you more interested than your editors at the time?

It was 92 or 93.

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