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The Takeout with Major Garrett

Megan Garber on the Impact of Internet Culture with “Screen People” [Extended Interview]

The Takeout with Major Garrett

CBS News

News, Politics

4.6586 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Major speaks with Megan Garber of The Atlantic, whose new book, “Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency”, discusses her take on internet culture and how people are seen more as characters than given grace as being human. She also provides some solutions about how we should perceive the algorithm and taking back agency from technology. 

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I think one of the greatest compliments a writer can give another writer is to say,

0:35.3

I wish I had written what you wrote.

0:39.0

Megan, I'm going to say that about something I came across page 139, and I'm going to read it from my audience.

0:42.7

Okay, great. Facts require humility. Facts require patience. Facts require pain. Fiction requires the opposite. As entertainment grows its influence over our national

0:58.2

stories, as it becomes evermore the true American ideology, it comes for the facts, too.

1:07.2

Wish I'd written that. I'm not even sure that's the whole... I'm not even sure that's the whole point of the book,

1:12.6

but it's something I reached in and pulled out.

1:14.6

No, that really is.

1:15.6

That really is the core of it.

1:17.6

I'm glad you... I'm glad that's what you focused on.

1:19.6

Help my audience understand what you're driving.

1:22.6

Yeah.

1:23.6

I mean, we think of ourselves, I think, so often as characters in a show, as pieces of

1:30.5

entertainment.

1:31.3

We talk about main character energy.

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