Baratunde Thurston: 'I Don't Know That Media Companies Need To Be Saved'

In this final segment of our Media Beat interview with The Onion web and politics editor Baratunde Thurston, we talk digital media trends.

When it comes to location based services that are currently all the rage, Thurston said, “Whether Foursquare itself survives or lasts, I don’t know, but what I do know is that location isn’t going away.”

We then of course talked about the iPad and how it will change the media business. Thurston providing us with video of him “fake buying” an iPad at an Apple store in Manhattan.

He wanted to see if Apple employees would still cheer him on.

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