the aughts

All The News That’s Fit To Print used to be about picking what readers should see and know, and now readers are not only deciding for themselves, they’re making the content themselves, too. That is what you think when you look through some of the 667 reader images the NYT selected to showcase this decade, and impart its events and its impact.

the aughts

As the decade’s close drew nearer it seemed prudent to actually call it something, and the Oh-Ohs, Double-Os and Two-Thousands frankly sound dumb. “The Aughts” is nice, clean, short, simple and definitive, and also sounds vaguely British which means it’s classy. That is why, here at Mediaite, our end-of-decade retrospective series is called…The Aughts. This new decade has snuck up on us, but we’re not letting the old one go just yet.

The Aughts

As writers scramble for their last-ditch efforts to name this decade, attention has landed on Time Magazine for their proposed name: “The Decade From Hell.” But what’s more interesting is to consider what Time suggested – and today’s editors subsequently neglected to revisit – in their first issue of the decade.