Radio Better Offline: Paris Martineau, Jeff Jarvis
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.
Ed Zitron is joined by Paris Martineau of The Information and media critic Jeff Jarvis to talk about Paris' story around the horrible consequences of an anonymous dating app, Meta's slop-filled right-wing future, and what the media industry might look like in ten years' time.
Jeff Jarvis: https://jeffjarvis.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Paris Martineau: https://bsky.app/profile/paris.nyc
Paris' story she talks about: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-a-casual-sex-website-left-the-door-open-to-teens
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| 0:35.7 | Change is coming. |
| 0:37.0 | Now it's my time to record radio. |
| 0:39.0 | Better Offline right here in the beautiful IHart Radio Studios on 55th Street. |
| 0:52.0 | And my God, we're back from CES. |
| 0:57.2 | You couldn't stop me. |
| 0:58.8 | I got off, I did 13 and a half, bloody hours on the radio, on the podcast thing. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm just, don't know why I keep calling it radio, and then got on the flight, moved to New York. |
| 1:07.2 | It was nothing. |
| 1:08.2 | Water off a duck's back, and now it's Tuesday, I'm already recording again. You'll never get rid of me. And today I have two amazing guests. I have Paris Martineau, reporter at The Information, and the mighty Jeff Jarvis, author of the Gutenberg parenthesis and journalism professor over at Stony Brook University. Mr. Jarvis is currently, he's fielding a phone call, so I'll go to Paris. How are you doing, Paris? |
| 1:29.3 | I'm doing great. I'm astounded by your energy levels, given the amount of podcasting and radio you've done in the last week, Ed. |
| 1:35.8 | I am fired up. I love doing this. I think this is what I was meant to do. How are your feet after CES? |
| 1:41.9 | Fantastic. I got inserts for my, I like came to this show fully prepared. |
| 1:46.6 | No one realizes how much, like, the amount of like Google Docs I had of things prepared, like the suitcase was packed like two weeks in advance. |
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