It’s been a heck of a decade, to say the least. When the new century opened up, we were worried about Y2K. Words like the iPod, Facebook and YouTube had yet to enter the cultural lexicon…or even exist for that matter. 9/11 was just a date on the calendar, Saddam Hussein was still in power and Barack Obama was still hanging out in the Illinois Senate. As the second decade of the 21st century looms, the world is a very different place.
Extempers have had a full plate over the past ten years as they grappled with the issues of the day. What is particularly striking about this is that some of these events took place while you were still watching Sesame Street in your Underoos.
Simple question to wrap this up: What big story (or stories) did Newsweek miss?