Being on call 24/7/365 is absolutely rattling. I feel like my laptop is eating my face, chomping away at my brain like Mrs. Pac Man on a tear.

The pace is absolutely relentless. You have to be out of the gate with your commentary fast — before you have a chance to full read or digest whatever it is you're commenting on. It's a little toxic, the news cycle now. It's making us all paranoid workaholics.

–Dan Savage, gay American sex advice columnist/media pundit, addressing the Internet's "most unnerving" effect on journalism and describing the potential downside of the information age.

**For more on Dan Savage, check out his interview with Queerty**