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Andy Rooney announced he was making his final regular appearance on 60 Minutes this Sunday. The witty raconteur has regularly given end-of-show commentary on the news magazine program since 1978 and was notable for his quirky, curmudegon points-of-view on various mundane subjects. Sunday will mark Rooney’s 1,097th essay for the show.

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NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd has undergone a rather remarkable transformation over Twitter. He has gone from predicting its demise to one of the more prolific press corps Tweeters, so much so that my Inside the White House Press Corps interview finds him speaking in hashtags. #itsaTwitterThingYouWouldntUnderstand.

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When The Awl asked “What Were Black People Talking About Last Night?“, which Mediaite’s Robert Quigley called “lazy and, well, casually racist,” one of the things that got lost was an actually interesting question – how do these seemingly random hashtagged trending topics get started?

So we found out.