Posted on Sep 30, 2011 Updated on Jun 3, 2021, 2:28 am CDT
This Sunday, Andy Rooney will give his final performance as the elderly everyman correspondent on CBS’ 60 Minutes. The segment has been a constant since 1978, but Rooney gained a second kind of fame lately as an oft-parodied curmudgeon. Parody accounts and real people alike have taken to Twitter to pay their mock respects.
A former senior politics reporter for the Daily Dot, Kevin Collier focuses on privacy, cybersecurity, and issues of importance to the open internet. Since leaving the Daily Dot in March 2016, he has served as a reporter for Vocativ and a cybersecurity correspondent for BuzzFeed.
