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births
Andy Rooney is a Great-Grandfather!
CBS' lovable curmudgeon Andy Rooney became a great-grandfather when his grandson, Fox News producer Justin Fishel, and his wife birthed twins recently. We look forward to hearing Andy bitch about all of this is a future 60 Minutes segment. [TVNewser]
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Fashion People
Anna Wintour's 60 Minutes Profile
Vogue's Anna Wintour was profiled on 60 Minutes tonight, a piece in which she expressed reluctance to glam down during tough times, defended her bitchiness, and basically said she's in it for the free clothes.
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Comment by Just Sayin'.......: I'm kind of annoyed she put up with being called a bitch. That is so demeaning to women. 4 Responses | Other threads
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vogue
The Utterances Of, And About, Anna Wintour
The 60 Minutes profile on Vogue editor Anna Wintour runs this Sunday. The publicity push is underway! We've learned who gets quoted in the upcoming segment—everyone else is screwed and unimportant: More »
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Comment by Banjo-Sea Kitten: Fur clothing sucks. Interesting in the screen grab that Anna looks like a nicely coiffed bunny rabbit. 8 Responses | Other threads
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publicity stunts
Anna Wintour Getting Ready For Her 60 Minutes Close Up
This coming Sunday CBS's 60 Minutes will air its last show before going on summer hiatus. Presumably that means the profile it's been preparing on Vogue editor Anna Wintour will finally air. More »
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Comment by LoveHerFace: Si Newhouse is going to bring in the current French Vogue editor to replace Anna Wintour?? Gasp! How very Devil... 1 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Joe Biden Says the President Apologized to Him, for Biden's Gaffes
When the vice president says something ridiculous, that is a gaffe, and when the president looks pissed about it, that is also a gaffe, and Barack Obama is sorry for everything, says Joe Biden. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by blix: I like Biden because he has a since of humor. Can you imagine Dick Cheney telling a joke? 8 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
The Politico-Drudge Echo Chamber
Politico is in the business of writing stories that Matt Drudge "NEEDS and WANTS" and that their reporters' mothers would read. Today they turned a couple of chuckles on 60 Minutes into a "developing..." story.
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By John CookComment by Almostbanned: But if it were Bush, the Gawker headline would have read "Punch Drunk' Buffoon Bush Laughs At Our Misery as... 9 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
Obama Won't Stop Cracking Up For 60 Minutes
OK, stop Barack Obama if you've heard this one: What's the only thing worse than having a 60 Minutes correspondent ask if the laughing president is "punch drunk" in the middle of an interview? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by mimilove: I'm becoming more and more proud to say I did not vote for Obama...and it's only two months in. When... 42 Responses | Other threads
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food wars
Obama Vegetable Garden Is Hippie Victory
Alice Waters wins: The First Family agreed to to grow its own vegetables for the first time since World War II, citing the very educational benefits the Berkeley restaurateur has long touted. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ChillbearLatrigue: What a colossal waste of time. Way to compete with struggling farmers. 18 Responses | Other threads
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media
60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt is hospitalized with pancreatic cancer. Liz Smith reports. [Update/ Clarification]
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recessionomics
Crazy Food Hippie Actually on to Something
Oh look, it's that nutty Berkeley chef Alice Waters, telling 60 Minutes we should all eat non-poisoned food. Doesn't she know organic produce is a "luxury," in Lesley Stahl's words? It's a recession! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Bearded Rapper: She doesn't have a microwave? I didn't think anybody could live without a microwave. 20 Responses | Other threads
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fashion week
Anna Wintour's Date With Morley Safer
Shameless flirt that he is, Morley Safer wasn't above flashing a little leg Friday to soften up Anna Wintour before 60 Minutes' cameras started rolling. Blake Lively maybe got a little jealous: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Joy_Rebar: What on earth is she wearing? Career suiting from the Stevie Nicks Collection? 6 Responses | Other threads
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hudson plane crash
Sullenberger Will Be the Hero We Need
On 60 Minutes, Katie Couric kept asking Chesley Sullenberger whether his heroic flight was influenced by anything beside training: his gut, his terror, his God. No: "I was sure I could do it." More »
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By Ryan TateComment by wholenuther: Though I hope Sully's a democrat, I'm sort of glad I don't know his politics. 11 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity science
Will 60 Minutes Help Anna Wintour Keep Hold of Vogue?
We hear CBS' 60 Minutes is preparing a profile on Anna Wintour. Though takedowns are the news magazine's claim to fame, we're betting the Vogue editor will emerged puffed up. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by LilyBartleby: Okay. Here is some advice. Make up a NEW screen name/avatar and log in to Gawker. DON'T TELL ANYONE YOUR SCREEN NAME.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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julian schnabel
Touchy Artist Flips Out On 60 Minutes
Perhaps the imploding real estate market is getting under the skin of Julian Schnabel, the artist turned film director turned high-end condo developer. The auteur's movies are widely admired and his smashed-plate paintings were at least big in the 1980s, but his hot pink ("Pompeii red") Palazzo Chupi has turned into a controversial icon for angry neighbors, gauche celebrity speculators and tumbling prices. And though Chupi didn't come up during Schnabel's 60 Minutes interview, the thin-skinned artist didn't take this blessing to heart, instead lashing out at Morley Shafer for daring to ask about art critic Robert Hughes, one of his most prominent detractors. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by RevHalofan: Safer trashed the contemporary art world in a 60-Minutes segment in the early 90s. Funny how he has no problem... 5 Responses | Other threads
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anderson cooper
Inside Anderson Cooper's Shirtless Seduction of Michael Phelps
Last night on 60 Minutes, a middle-aged man spent fifteen minutes attempting conversation with an inarticulate bohunk until the younger man finally agreed to let him come over. Or, as it was promoted, "Anderson Cooper interviewed Michael Phelps." -
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Michael Phelps Sleeps With Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper has to consider it one of the highlights of his career thus far, a thoroughly pleasurable counterbalance to his weeks of depressing Hurricane Katrina coverage back when the CNN anchor was still paying his dues: A flirty interview with champion Olympic swimmer and fellow heartthrob Michael Phelps, complete with shirt removal, medal-fondling, a cozy little nap together and the line, "Mind if I hold one? They're very heavy!" Viewers of Cooper's own AC360 are used to being brought in on this sort of innuendo; it was only a matter of time before the 60 Minutes contributor started beating CBS' larger audience over the head with the "boys make me giggle" routine. So to speak. (Clip after the jump.) More »
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By Ryan TateComment by llamalash★: Am I the only one who does not get why Phelps is considered a heartthrob? 13 Responses | Other threads
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barack obama
And I'm Barack Obama: The post-election afterglow scored a direct hit last night on 60 Minutes, where the President-elect and wife Michelle's rangy hour-long interview with Steve Kroft drew 24 million viewers. The 6.4 rating is the newsmagazine's highest in nine years, and what did we learn? There will be Republicans in his Cabinet, no new dog would survive the grueling transition process to the White House, and college football needs a playoff system. Also, if you stuck around to the end, Andy Rooney bemoaning frivolous TV news. And here we thought Obama had dispatched all those mavericks. [The Live Feed] -
barack obama
Obama Breaks Puppy Promise!
Did you think That One would need to be sworn in before he started breaking promises, to children, in front of TV cameras? It was all right there in front of Steve Kroft's face on 60 Minutes tonight, but he just smiled, from the tank. The "emotive" Associated Press, though, noticed Obama changed his tune on the show: The president-elect promised his daughters in his victory speech that a new puppy was "coming with us to the White House." Yet all of a sudden on 60 Minutes it's coming only after Obama gets "settled" in the White House — "late winter, early spring." Watch hope get sucker-punched, after the jump. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by belltolls: The kids might as well learn this is a dog eat dog world. 8 Responses | Other threads
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dan rather
Republicans Vetted Dan Rather Panel
So it turns out "crazy" old Dan Rather has turned up some actual, you know, evidence for his theory of a vast right-wing conspiracy to take him down at CBS News four years ago: CBS memos show the guy who led the "investigation" into Rather's 60 Minutes story on the president's Air National Guard service was appointed after getting "high marks from the G.O.P." Another Republican was rejected after being deemed not sufficiently right-wing by a CBS lobbyist and executives. Craven CBS News suits even considered having Rather's work reviewed by Ann Coulter and various other terrible right-wing demagogues: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Spirit Fingers: I'm sorry, but isn't CBS marketed toward those aged, Christian-based, right wing society, you know those who watched Touched By... 5 Responses | Other threads
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clips
A Chinese video to remind you how awesome your life is
60 Minutes did a segment on Chinese people who live and work among "e-waste," the recyclable-yet-toxic remains of discarded consumer electronics devices. An Engadget reader dug up this longer, more yucky Current documentary. I'm going to get a sandwich, so I can fall to my knees and thank God for it.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Patricia2: i don't mean to say this, but that host is irritating. more » | Other threads
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the panic of '08
A Defense Of Wall Street Villains
God knows why Robert Pickel, head of the association of derivatives traders, would want to go on 60 Minutes yesterday to explain credit default swaps. These complex financial instruments—at the center of the credit crisis—are now about as impossible to defend on television as child pornography. Watch this clip from the CBS news show for Pickle's eyebrow-raise when words fail him. It's an enjoyable moment of television but it's time for a defense of Wall Street against their critics in Congress and the media. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by lawyergay: @Nick Denton: To be an accuracy brat, you only fixed the "Pickle" at the top of the piece. But more to... 12 Responses | Other threads
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things we actually like
The Andy Rooney Game
Comedian Joe Mande invented a cute game: Remove all but the first and last sentence of Andy Rooney's segment from 60 Minutes, and put the result on YouTube. Incredibly, this makes Rooney sound more sensible than before. Below are Mande's seven editions of the Andy Rooney Game, including last weekend's segment, "Surprise Party." More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by thinkofnothing: yeah these are jumbled. Surprise Party is definitely from two different episodes. like when you see a blue car, but... more » | Other threads
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honestly
Look Out, America—Here Come Young People!
Millennials! Who are they and what do they want from us? They Facebook their MySpaces all day and Twitter their iPhones all night, and they have terrible manners! Have they come to take us to a Home? Morley Safer investigated on last Sunday's 60 Minutes. [In a repeat, apparently!] The video of the segment is below the jump. It will terrify you! These kids have tattoos and still expect to hold jobs and there are 80 million of them. More »
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By PareeneComment by mrhanky251: wouldn't a better name for them be "Me-llennials".... I think this video communicates the ego-glorifying Millennial stereotype just as well, if... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Alec Baldwin Fights Off '60 Minutes' Offensive With Thoughtful Age Gags
For all the career renaissance we've seen from Alec Baldwin over the last three or four years, not even his Golden Globe for 30 Rock overshadows his legendary turn as "Sociopathic Father" in last year's wildly popular Web-exclusive release Thoughtless Little Pig. Even Morley Safer couldn't stop talking about it last night on 60 Minutes; in the accompanying video, watch the "appalling" Baldwin float like a butterfly and sting like a bee under Safer's withering sallies, punch back with word of his forthcoming book on "divorce and parental alienation" and finally score the knockout with his disarming rejoinder about a potential political career: "There's other things I want to do. I mean, in a matter of weeks I'm going to be 50... By 60 Minutes correspondent terms, I am a young man!" Oh, Alec, you bastard. We just can't stay mad at you. [60 Minutes] More » -
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Alec Baldwin Lashes Out At Media Over Enraged Call To Daughter
Actor Alec Baldwin was on 60 Minutes last night discussing the infamous voice mail in which he called his daughter a "thoughtless little pig." Baldwin said his behavior was "totally wrong," but also offered so many excuses for the outburst that it made me wonder if he isn't going to lose some of the public goodwill he's built up in the year since the call surfaced. Here's how my own thinking on Alec Baldwin has evolved (along with a video except of Baldwin on 60 Minutes): More » -
pet projects
Alec Baldwin Would Like to Run For Something
So Alec Baldwin would like run for office some day, maybe. Possibly soon! After all, he's almost 50. And 50 is when you are allowed to "run the world," he says. "There's no age limit on running for office, to a degree. [It is] something I might do one day," the amusingly intense actor tells 60 Minutes this Sunday. Ha ha ha let's all laugh at him! He'll never win any elections, because of how insane he is and how we all know terrible things about his family and his life and his temper and how he yelled at his daughter that one time. But hey, the actual reason he'll never win an election has nothing to do with his sordid past. It's his unrepentant liberalism. Because California will happily elect drug-abusing unqualified actors with histories of gross sexual misconduct and harassment governor, as long as they're business-friendly Republicans. Seriously, Baldwin's past is way less gross than Schwarzenegger's, plus he's never done anything as embarrassing as this. [CBS]
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By PareeneComment by BowlingAlleyLawyer: @Zorica: well she didn't mean to hit me with the door. I just happened to be standing in the threshold... more » | Other threads
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katie couric
Couric Could Get CBS Talk Show
Katie Couric is in talks to leave the CBS Evening News, the Washington Post reported, lending credence to an earlier report in the Wall Street Journal that the anchor is likely to leave before her contract expires in 2011. Couric would be offered "either a syndicated talk show or a full-time role on 60 Minutes" if she is eased out as anchor, the Post's anonymous sources said. Howard Kurtz, who wrote the Post's Couric story, is playing a bit of catchup: he published an interview with Couric Monday that missed the exit talks, allowing the Journal to scoop him two days later. [Washington Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by slimceagirl: She's actually very nice ya'll. Why can't you be nice, too? more » | Other threads
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advertising
Al Gore Realizes Value Of Good Ads Too Late
Former wooden President-elect of the United States Al Gore was on 60 Minutes last night, being frumpy and endearing, as is his wont. His new project is promoting a huge $300 million ad campaign by the Alliance for Climate Protection, which is based on the (correct) theory that we Americans are such lazy, brainwashed zombies that we need a shiny, consumer-friendly ad campaign to convince us to stop choking ourselves with carbon dioxide. The 60 Minutes segment showed Gore visiting the ad agency, and even showed a clip of the ad, which is great free media exposure. Too bad its benefit was canceled out by the bitter taste left by the subsequent mutterings of Andy Rooney. Well, let's all hope this ad thing works so we don't die! After the jump, the first ad, which is Gore-like in its earnestness. More »
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Comment by FitnessMadeSimple: Sigh. Al, global warming is so yesterday. Haven't you heard? Global cooling is the new in thing. more » | Other threads
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defamer
Why Are Network News Divisions Dragging Their Heels On Converting To HD Programming?
While most of you heathens were watching The Hills and/or The New Adventures Of Two And A Half Men Who Met Your Mother on Monday night, your Uncle Grambo was plowing through the first two and a half hours of the new Frontline documentary, Bush's War. On an emotional level, it was a thoroughly exhausting experience — reliving those nightmarish days of September 2001 and the resulting six-plus years of what can only be described as another long national nightmare had precisely the opposite effect on my sleep patterns as a fistful of Ambien. That said, it deserves classification as essential viewing, regardless of your party affiliation. That said, this post is not about George Bush or politics, nor does it have anything to do with the subject matter of the two-part series that Variety describes as a "great historical drama." Rather, it's about how glorious it was to watch a news documentary that was specifically tailored to HDTV and why we're considering boycotting 60 Minutes until they make the switchover to hi-def programming. More » -
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Coop and Becks Are Friends
We're still not sure why dreamy CNN anchor Anderson Cooper profiled dreamy "football" star David Beckham on 60 Minutes last night (something about Beckham being rich and famous and dreamy?) but he did. And it's on the internet! We're sure the old people who make up the 60 Minutes audience wondered who these dashing young men were and why they were invading their TV screens with their youthful virility and mutual appreciation of athletic prowess. Becks' amazing robot wife Victoria, oddly, is barely mentioned. Full segment, after the jump. More » -
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Becks and The Coop: This Sunday on '60 Minutes'!
OMG everyone who's psyched for 60 Minutes this Sunday! CNN hearththrob Anderson Cooper is going one-on-one with "football" superstar David Beckham!!! There's a minute-long clip on CBS that we've embedded after the jump. But if sitting through an ad is too much work, you can just gaze upon our screenshot gallery of The Coop and Becks broing out on the "football" field (turf? some other word?). Anderson admires Beckman's powerful leg, then does a manly job defending the goal. This is gonna be the best profile ever! More »
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By PareeneComment by crosbystreet: All I keep seeing is an ad for Mr. Clean with Febreze. Apparently this new cleaner is "right at home... more » | Other threads
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the internets
Lesley Stahl's Jewels Were Stolen
60 Minutes and former CBS White House correspondent Lesley Stahl's breathless recounting of the "cat burglar" who broke into her apartment and stole her jewels, on the new menopausal Wowowow site, reads like a hardboiled detective drama. "'We know him,' said Detective Kenney. 'He's a serial. This is his pattern, his MO.'" It's a bit unnerving, and perhaps unbecoming, to see her going on at length about rather quotidian personal dramas; the web is an undignified place for old-media icons. But at least Stahl has a little perspective: "What I am thankful for is that our housekeeper wasn't harmed..." The NYPD actually made her a WANTED poster, so you'll want to click for that and the rest of the drama. More » -
the olds
"You Have to Feel the Raygun to Believe It"
Watching David Martin of 60 Minutes run around an open field with a huge piece of plywood covering his body (followed by a mattress), yelling "It hurts but I have to keep going," while getting shot by a ray gun ("Engage!") amuses us and reminds us of Coney Island's "Shoot the Freak" game. Video after the jump. More »
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quicklink
Leslie Stahl Robbed Of Diamond Trove
"A burglar posing as a construction worker broke into '60 Minutes' reporter Lesley Stahl's Upper West Side penthouse and carted off more than $100,000 worth of jewelry and electronics, police said... 'She's really upset'" [NYP] -
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The Average Age Of A '60 Minutes' Reporter? Old. Really Old.
Mike Wallace, the crazily well-preserved 89-year-old 60 Minutes correspondent had triple bypass surgery over the weekend and is recovering nicely, the NYPost says. Good to hear! Despite the relatively decent health possessed by the rest of 60 Minutes crew, their Achilles heel remains their collective ancientness. Being a television news reporter isn't exactly easy on the ticker—PBS talk show host Charlie Rose practically died last year, but he's got a new gig—as a '60 Minutes' correspondent. Just what they needed, another faultily-wired senior citizen! More »
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By MaggieComment by brendastarlet is on it: @corporatedrone: I don't watch the Andy Rooney part any more. I have my own older relatives to fill the void. more » | Other threads
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debunker
Facebook Makes For Lowest-Rated "60 Minutes" All Year. No, Wait, Maybe It's The Mass Rape.
Don't pretend the low ratings for Sunday's 60 Minutes segment about Facebook say anything meaningful. Tech blog Silicon Alley Insider concluded that the world at large doesn't care about Facebook, but that's an unfair assumption. The awkward interview with site founder Mark Zuckerberg and a description of a site mostly geared toward college students may not have been the best material for the show's aging audience, but how many of them were even tuned in after the preceding segment, which explored rape and genocide in the Congo? It feels good to draw an obvious conclusion — Surprise! Old people don't care about Facebook — and I can sympathize with anyone squeezing a blog post out of a fake analysis. But the exercise is utterly useless when there's a more obvious answer. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Miss Pontificating: >>>>>>Old people don't care about Facebook<<<<<<< My friends are all in their late thirties and early fourties. We love Anderson, Facebook,... more » | Other threads
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facebook
Beacon a business failure, too
Is it advertising if no one pays for it? In its rush to criticize Facebook's Beacon in last night's segment on the hot social network, 60 Minutes forgot to ask that question. In dramatic tones, correspondent Lesley Stahl ominously noted how "advertisers pulled out" after controversy erupted over the feature, which reports on users' online activities, including purchases. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended it to Stahl as the future of advertising, a form of sponsorship less crass than banner ads. If it's the future of advertising, though, it's not a very lucrative one. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dror Poleg: @SAMPLE032: Well, I ain't heard nothing, just judging by what I see. Anyways, when are we going to be worth... more » | Other threads
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facebook
$4 billion doesn't do much for Zuck's wardrobe
With his 27 percent stake in the company, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is worth about $4 billion. (In an interview aired last night, 60 Minutes put the figure at $3 billion, but the venerable show is — how to put this delicately? — incorrect.) So what does a billion here, a billion there do for the 23-year old founder? Not much to improve his wardrobe, apparently. "You don't look like you're buying expensive clothes," interviewer Lesley Stahl tells him. Ouch. And it sounds like that paper wealth isn't doing much to improve Zuck's housing situation, either. More »
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Comment by DanLar75: No shit hes Scripted, either hes scripted or retarded! "I still sleep on a matress in my 1br apartment" ok, and... more » | Other threads
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geeks gone wild
Facebookers are late for everything
"Facebook headquarters in downtown Palo Alto looks like a dorm room," Lesley Stahl narrated during last night's 60 Minutes piece on the company. "Facebook employees," Stahl also tells us, "show up late, stay late, and party really late." At the end of the the montage, it cuts to a darkened room where an employee continues to grind out work on his laptop while several others sit scrunched shoulder to shoulder on a red couch. There's also a DJ in the room. "Get down!" the music exhorts, 'cause it's totally like party planet down in Palo Alto. Woo. Wake us when they start taking their clothes off or putting on Viking helmets.
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facebook
"60 Minutes" scoop: Zuckerberg remains awkward with humans
"You seem to be replacing Larry and Sergey as the people out here who everyone is talking about," 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his interview last night. In response, Zuckerberg sniffs. Then there's a beat. He blinks. Then Zuckerberg asks: "Is that a question?" He looks off camera and chuckles. Here's to another 100 years of puff pieces turned sour by petulance.
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