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I think that Chris Anderson is kind of cocky and i didn't like how he started off the interview by making the interviewer seem stupid. I started to like him a little better as the interview went on, however I'm not sure i completely agree with everything he had to say. I think for people of my generation were used to getting news from our friends or things we see on the internet, but i think it's rare that we hear this news before it's in the media. I think that it's in the media, made into a big deal, then talked about enough so that people start mentioning it on their facebook and twitter pages. Maybe with the people that he knows and tweets he follows he gets that information early, but I know my friends don't know stuff like what's going on in iraq before the news. Also, even after he receives that information via twitter, people post their opinions on this news, they're not just posting the facts and what's going on, it's a bias look at what's going on and that can get information very distorted and leave a lot out. However, one could argue that certain news stations and reporters also have a bias outlook on that kind of information so it's hard to compare. Overall I think that eliminating the media all together is a dumb idea, not everyone uses twitter and facebook and not everyone even has a computer. Access to a newspaper or a T.V. with a news station is way more realistic then everyone looking at facebook status updates. A world with no news reports or news articles at all is going to leave people very much in the dark about what's going on in the world and will just leave more room for personal beliefs and interpretations of what's going on which will ultimately cause many fights and no real knowledge of current events.