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Lara Logan Detained by Police in Egypt as Journalist Woes Continue
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIn yet another incident involving aggressive measures against foreign journalists, Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, and her crew have been detained by Egyptian police, Time reports. "For security reasons CBS will not be commenting on, or revealing in any way, CBS personnel activity, movement or location," a CBS spokesman told Time. The detention is the latest occurrence in an ongoing series of harsh experiences for reporters covering the Egyptian revolution. The growing list includes Logan's fellow CBS News correspondent Katie Couric, CNN's Anderson Cooper, and ...
Jay Carney: 5 Facts About the New White House Press Secretary [VIDEO]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsWelcome to the hot seat, Jay Carney. As many media outlets predicted, Vice President Joe Biden's director of communications will replace Robert Gibbs as the White House press secretary. The change takes effect in February. Surge Desk has the facts on the man who's about to live under a barrage of questions. 1. He's already impressed the boss Sources told Fox News that Carney "hit it out of the park" during the selection process, which required face time with President Barack Obama, senior adviser David Plouffe and new Chief of Staff Bill Daley. 2. His band mate got him into ...
Web Reacts to Time's Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year Pick
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Time magazine has named Mark Zuckerberg its Person of the Year, with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the tea party, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Chilean miners as runners up. In explaining the choice, Time managing editor Richard Stengel declares that Facebook's CEO: is both a product of his generation and an architect of it. The social-networking platform he invented is closing in on 600 million users. ... It is the connective tissue for nearly a tenth of the planet. Facebook is now the third largest country on earth and surely has more information about its citizens ...
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Is Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTime magazine, which has lionized public figures ranging from Joseph Stalin to Ronald Reagan on its cover, has named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg it's "Person of the Year." Time Editor Rick Stengel said Zuckerberg was chosen "for connecting more than half-a-billion people and mapping the social relations among them (something that has never been done before); for creating a new system of exchanging information that has become both indispensable and sometimes a little scary; and finally, for changing how we all live our lives in ways that are innovative and even optimistic." Among others ...
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Named Time 'Person of Year'
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Dec. 15) -- Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2010. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor last year. The 2008 winner was then President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Document Leaks Don't Endanger U.S. Troops
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyCritics of WikiLeaks -- including military officials, the White House and former president Bill Clinton -- have claimed that the whistleblower group's controversial document dumps exposed information that could put U.S. troops in danger. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dismisses that notion as "reactionary sentiment." In an exclusive interview with TIME made public Wednesday, Assange says that "this sort of nonsense about lives being put in jeopardy is trotted out every time a big military or intelligence organization is exposed" in the media. "However, this organization in its four years ...
Poll: 4 in 10 Say Marriage Becoming Obsolete
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 18) -- Nearly four in 10 Americans think marriage is becoming obsolete, according to a new survey that reveals changing attitudes on gay marriage, unwed couples and the definition of what a family is. The study, conducted by social scientists at the Pew Research Center in coordination with Time magazine, also shows that Americans' attitudes toward family issues differ by race, age and social class. It's based on interviews with 2,691 adults reached on their cell or land-line phones during the first three weeks of October. Pew researchers also analyzed demographic and economic data from ...
LeBron James Finalist for Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year'
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsTime Magazine released the 25 finalists for its annual "Person of the Year" list, and LeBron James is included -- much to his amazement. "I am who I am and I think I'm in a position of my life where I'm going to get better every day," James said following Miami's practice Monday. "But it's too much." The nominations include figures of international influence such as President Barack Obama (the 2008 winner), Lady Gaga, Sarah Palin, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, conservative commentator Glenn Beck, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The intrigue ...
Who Will Claim Time's 2010 'Person of the Year'?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- Debate is already heating up over who will claim the 2010 Time "Person of the Year," the annual distinction recognizing the "person or persons who most affected the news and our lives." Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently sitting atop the online user poll, but don't expect to find him on the cover (more on why later). Other top contenders include "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" tag team Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, President Barack Obama, singer Lady Gaga and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. After "You" won in 2006, the possibility of a group ...
Study: Heavy Boozers Outlive Abstainers
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- The hangover is really kicking in, and you're cursing yourself for having that fourth drink and then a fifth. Remember Tom? That guy at the party who was only sipping Pellegrino? He's probably doing a bit better right now. But it turns out you may win out in the long run. According to a new study, heavy drinkers outlive abstainers. Now, go ahead mix yourself a bloody Mary for breakfast. The new paper in "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research" was picked up by Time, which earlier had another surprising finding about teetotalers: They tend to be more depressed than ...
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