Newsweek Launches ‘Decade In Rewind’ Website, Recaps Ten Years In 7 Minutes (VIDEO)


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05-30-02-timeballwebWe’re less than two months from the end of the decade and up to now, the media has been suspiciously quiet about it. Maybe it’s going to be a surprise party, but it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to believe that the retrospective coverage would have been wall-to-wall for the entire second half of the year. There’s always December!

Whatever the case, Newsweek is kicking off their celebration of The Aughts and welcoming 2010 with a new website: The Decade In Rewind. It’s highly interactive, filled with top 10 lists and essays, and will doubtlessly be fleshed out at New Year’s Day grows ever closer.

The best part so far, though, is their 7-minute review of the decade in the style of Nine Minute Sopranos, all fast-talking and nostalgic, which was posted to the Newsweek Tumblr this morning. From Y2K to Obama, it’s all there.

Unfortunately, they’ve decided to make the clip un-embeddable, but the video transcends that obnoxious reality because it’s just that good. Watch it here.

Update: Newsweek was nice enough to pass on the video in shareable form. Check it out below:

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Creepy George W. Bush Billboard Asks Minnesotans: “Miss Me Yet?”

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Jenny Sanford is All Things to All Pundits

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