The Colbert Report

As someone who considers herself a huge fan of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, I must report severe failure and guilt issues concerning those shows as of late. Many weeknights, I am either furiously writing about irrelevancy in motion for hours on end or plowing through prime time shows for Sound Bites. Then it's suddenly 2:30 a.m. and I'm 22 minutes into my recording of Glee. I know watching TV is a treat in itself, but getting to watch TV without the competing glow of a laptop screen can feel like a vacation. All of this nonsense is »
- Annie Barrett

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Yesterday, the Internet exploded with the rumor that Kanye West had died (possibly in a car accident). Of course, this is not the case — it turns out West was the latest victim of a death rumor on the Internet. The rumor was immediately refuted by West's girlfriend Amber Rose via Twitter. "This 'Rip Kanye West' topic is not funny and it's not true!" she wrote. "It's in extreme poor taste to have that as a trendy topic. It's totally disrespectful to make up a story like this we're all human ... and we all make mistakes and to say someone died cuz of a mistake is ridiculous. You wouldn't want someone to say that about you."
But West himself hasn't responded to the rumor himself. Though he has updated his blog several times, he has not mentioned it there. And his spokesperson hasn't made a statement either. Though it hardly seems »
- Kyle Anderson

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On the massive timeline that is the universe, five days doesn't seem like an awfully long time, but consider how different the world was on Monday morning: Soupy Sales was alive, Lil Wayne was a free man, people were still wondering what Rihanna's new single would sound like and the content of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" was still relatively mysterious. But now that we're five days older and that much wiser, it's time to take a look back at anything you might have missed in the Newsroom.
» Rihanna unveiled her new single "Russian Roulette," which also came with an edgy album cover that immediately put it in rare company.
» Adam Lambert also had a busy week of debuts, as his new single "Time for Miracles" made its way to the Web, along with the epic video for that same song.
» Drake added "college basketball coach" to his ever-growing list of occupations. »
- Kyle Anderson

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