Pin ItemailprintHere are your top stories for this Thursday, December 15, 2011: – Obama marks the end of the Iraq war – Panetta says drone operations will continue – Syrian activists say more than 25 killed – Time picks Person of the Year for 2011 – White House backs out on veto of NDAA
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This morning on NBC’s TODAY show, Time magazine revealed its 2011 Person of the Year – The Protester. “There was a lot of consensus among our people,” Time magazine’s managing editor Rick Stengel told Matt Lauer and Ann Curry of this year’s cover. ”It felt right.” As it has done for the past 84 years, [...]
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Want to learn a lot about the mainstream media here in the U.S.? Look no farther than Time magazine. Specifically, take a look at the different covers Time magazine uses here in the United States vs. other parts of the world. Good news, sheeple. It looks like revolution isn’t relevant news here in the good [...]
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Comic David Frye, whose impressions of Presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson gained him notoriety in the 1960s and early ’70s, has died at the age of 77. Frye died on Monday of cardiopulmonary arrest at his home in Las Vegas, according to the Clark County Coroner’s office. Frye offered up a wide range of [...]
Jay Carney, a former reporter for Time and communications director for Vice President Joe Biden, has been named the new White House Press Secretary. Bill Daley, President Barack Obama‘s chief of staff, made the announcement on Thursday along with several other changes on tap in an email to White House staff. Carney, who is married [...]
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Bill Hader had a lot of fun portraying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last night on Saturday Night Live, interrupting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was touting his recent selection as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. “Thanks to WikiLeaks, you can see how corrupt governments operate in the shadows.” Hader said with a [...]
The results are in and Time magazine has named Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as its Person of the Year for 2010. Zuckerberg, 26, currently holds approximately 25 percent of Facebook’s shares and was featured last week as one of Barbara Walters 10 Most Fascinating people of 2010. According to Time, the Facebook founder [...]
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Remember last April when 4chan’s moot (A.K.A. Chris Poole) somehow managed to temporarily land at the top of Time’s list of the 100 most influential people? Looks like they’ve finally figured out how it happened. The Time folks sent a tweet out earlier this week saying they had determined how 4chan manage to manipulate their [...]
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(NOTE: For those who actually remember the skit referenced in the title of this post, scroll down to view one of the funniest SNL skits of all time, IMHO) Who has Time Magazine named as the most influential person in the entire world? Barack Obama? The Pope? Richard Simmons? No, the most influential person in [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Has Time Magazine gone black-hat? As you may recall from Friday, Moot, the founder of the controversial 4chan internet group, was on pace to be named as 2009’s most influential person on the yearly Time 100 list. Moot was leading the pack with 275,000 votes with an average score of 75/100. Today, [...]
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Brace yourself. The founder of 4chan could be named as 2009’s most influential person on the yearly Time 100 list. Christopher Poole, A.K.A. Moot, is listed as one of 203 entrants, and as of this moment he leads the voting with 275,000 votes. Jon Stewart has a firm grip on 2nd place with 158,900. Other [...]
