Every December, Time names a “Person of the Year”—the individual or entity that, in the magazine’s estimation, has had the greatest impact on the news either for good or for ill. The process for naming 2010′s recipient kicked off last night, when Time hosted a Person of the Year panel in Manhattan’s Time and Life building.

If one believes that the cable news landscape is symptomatic of our two-party political system, then one also probably and predictably saw a different tone in last nights election results. Fox News presented its coverage with a patina of celebration, while MSNBC’s took a more gloom and doom approach. But there was one important distinction between the two outlets: Fox News offered a far more balanced set of analysts for the election coverage than did MSNBC.

Cable news was all atwitter with the back and forth between Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday, and Fox News’ Geraldo At Large was no exception. However, guest Ann Coulter‘s unique take on the sitting vice president was rather remarkable.”It almost is kind of effective to send out this drunken Irishman to respond to Dick Cheney. It’s like sending out the White House dog.” Woof. Video after the jump.

The Founding Bloggers? Or an Internet tea party? Take your pick. This morning news broke that a group of “politically diverse group of [high profile] bloggers” were so impressed with last week’s question and answer session between President Obama and the House Republicans that they have banded together to call on the president and the Congress to make it a regular thing.

In the age of the Verified Account, we expect our celebrities and media personalities to be on Twitter. It’s both the quickest and easiest way for them to reach their audiences and it provides a small window into the minutiae of their everyday lives. So we’ve tallied and ranked the top 25 media figures by number of Twitter followers and the results, if not surprising, are telling.

Full disclosure: Joe Trippi is a guy with whom I am friendly. We’re not BFFs, but we talk from time to time about things not directly related to my role as a journalist and his as a source. I disclose this because it appears that community blogs, like Daily Kos, expect a chapter-and-verse dossier on [...]