Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President–Hank Green

January 25, 2015

“I think sub-consciously they understand the really terrifying thing here. Glozell and Bethany and I weren’t put in a chair next to President Obama because we have cultivated an audience. We were put there because we have cultivated legitimacy.”

The young youtube star who interviewed the president after the State of Union address on Youtube talks about his experience, legacy media (what he calls Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc.) fear, the legitimacy of the new media, and after all, the future of civic engagement of the millennials.

View at Medium.com

https://medium.com/@hankgreen/holy-shit-i-interviewed-the-president-fa3e8fb44d16