Baratunde on iPad and Whether Media Needs Saving

In the video above, comedian and Onion.com editor Baratunde Thurston talks with Media Beat about the iPad as the savior of media, and, more importantly, whether media in its current form deserves saving at all. The iPad is an important and exciting device, sure, but what’s most important about it is how it’s put the discussion over old and new media into hyperdrive.

Here’s an excerpt: “I went to the iPad launch. I didn’t buy one.