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Newsweek taps Stephen Colbert as guest editor

Newsweek unveiled its redesign just two weeks ago, but the company is already shaking things up big on the content side. Exhibit A: The June 8th issue will feature political satirist/professional Bill O'Reilly impersonator Stephen Colbert. This is newsworthy for two reasons: 1.) It's the first guest editor in the history of the magazine and 2.) The guest editor is a fake person of sorts -- a persona created by a comedian to mock the right-wing and expose hypocrisy.

Editor Jon Meacham told The New York Observer that "I was just very impressed with the range of his knowledge and he had an almost encyclopedic feel for anything that came up. As we think about ways to both inform and surprise readers of the magazine, the notion of having him as a guest editor seemed like a good one."

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Colbert figures Google owes him $700 million from the YouTube acquisition

I howled when I watched this last week but had no idea I would actually find it on the Internet. But of course I would. Clips from The Colbert Report are all over YouTube, why not this particular one of Colbert claiming Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) owes him $700 million from Google's purchase prise for YouTube then? Here's how Colbert, in his 'truthiness' fashion, figures this out:

"...my show is all over the YouTube. You put my name into YouTube, you pull up more than 26 hundred videos, that's gotta be like a third of all videos. That means I've got $500 million coming to me. That doesn't even count the times we mention YouTube on the show."

Colbert then counts the times he indeed mentioned YouTube, and for each mention he adds $50 million to the $500 million he already calculated. The last mention is even a complete fake voice over. Too funny.

Well, Google, Colbert will accept cash or money orders.

You can watch the video on YouTube for yourselves of course.

Via Google Blogoscopped.

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