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“Saturday Night Live” Rewards Facebook Fans With Betty White

Facebook users demanded that Betty White host “Saturday Night Live,” and last night they got their wish. Here’s her opening monologue, which gives you a pretty good sense of how the show went: Lots of jokes about her being old, but also dirty–in an okay-for-broadcast-TV way.

Her take on Facebook, by the way: “It sounds like a huge waste of time.”

Oh. And there were a lot of MacGruber sketches, which are supposed to get you to watch the MacGruber movie later this month. Here are all of them, stitched together in one clip:


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While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post — are becoming more like each other. Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms.

— Journalism professor Jay Rosen to HuffPo media writer Michael Calderone (via GigaOM)