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 of Be.

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.

...