Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email

the show, please do so at Radio at the Federalist.com. We'd love to hear from you. Molly, I forgot

what my title was there for a second. Took me a second. Stumbled. I'm not a big title person,

and I value people, but I just don't care what their title is.

It matters less and less in journalism, at least.

When I started out, you were like a cub reporter, then senior this, that, and there was sort of a structure.

But now everyone does a little bit of everything at websites.

It writes about a little bit of everything. When I first became a columnist in 2004, being a columnist

was like a big thing. Like I thought that I would just sit in that seat for the rest of my life.

And then blogs came along and everyone was a columnist. So it didn't really mean much. I liked the era. Oh, I think it's the I think it was the

best. I mean, I discovered so many interesting voices. People out have these amazing debates. It really

just opened the world up to me in a way to a lot of interesting people. And, but then it all came

falling down with social media.

Good for me personally, but I don't think it's great for everybody, meaning like for the

world.

Seems like it's had some downsides.

I do.

I think so.

I think it's changing the way people think.

I don't, I'm not smart enough to know how

technically in the brain that's happening, but I notice for myself that it makes me miserable when

I'm on it and I do this thing where I try not to go on at night where it upsets me. I think it like

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