In the video interview embedded above, comedian, Onion editor and writer Baratunde Thurston talked about why he waited in line on Saturday and pretended to buy an iPad. The author of Keep Jerry Falwell Away From My Oreo Cookies explained why he both appreciated and distrusted Apple’s new device.
Here’s an excerpt: “I went to the iPad launch. I didn’t buy one. I pretended to buy one. I ran out of the Apple Store with my backpack in my hand screaming, ‘We did it!’ and all the Apple employees go nuts. There’s something a little perverse and wrong about something with that level of consumerist, cultish behavior. But what I’m excited about is that … it does change how we interact with things … The way we tell stories has to change.”
The full interview will air the week of April 12 on Media Beat. If you are suffering from an iPad hangover, seek relief here.