It is interesting how he acknowledges the age difference. (If you are 28 and your response is "duh"), I can relate as Tucker and I are the same age and thus lived at a time before the internet when media was much more controlled. The internet leveled the playing field in a way that if you have grown up with it your whole life, it is hard to understand what it was like to not have access to the tools, information and people that we just take for granted now. Not a single person in college or high school today or who was graduated over the last say 15-20 years gets what it was like to use real books, encyclopedias, magazine articles on microfiche in the library to write a paper - I forget the names of those books you used to look up the articles, but it was a bitch. You really had to dig. Plus, we were not bombarded with news 24/7. It was short, concise and at regulated times.

But if my generation is the one that gets the miss on media manipulation, I can liken it to when I can remember as a teenager, many of those older than me shaking their fingers about how the government lied (in reference to Nixon, usually) and my peers and I thinking "And?" To us, it was just accepted because we were little children, if even born at all, when Watergate et al went down. (My earliest political memory is Nixon resigning. I remember the local paper headline "Nixon to Quit". Nothing leading up to that.) So we had that "duh" moment as well. And so shall this generation...