19 december 2008 was een vrijdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 353e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 17 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op vrijdag 19 december 2025, 185 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 19 december 2026, in 179 dagen. Je hebt 6.394 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 153.472 uur, of ongeveer 9.208.360 minuten, of ongeveer 552.501.600 seconden.
Date: 19 December 2008
By Tom Kuntz
Tom Kuntz
Media | The glut of news leaves people overloaded and thus no better informed, a study finds. “The irony in news fatigue is that these consumers felt helpless to change their news consumption at a time when they have more control and choice than ever before.” [Columbia Journalism Review]
Date: 19 December 2008
By Saul Hansell
Saul Hansell
Picking the type of stories you want every day downloaded onto your iPod points to a future of more interactive digital news.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dassault Aviation agreed to buy Alcatel-Lucent’s 20.78 percent stake in Thales, a maker of flight electronics, for about 1.57 billion euros ($2.24 billion).
Date: 20 December 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Sovereign Bancorp, a savings and loan that agreed to be acquired by Spanish Banco Santander, is cutting 1,000 jobs beginning immediately.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Clark Hoyt
Clark Hoyt
Re “Expert Opinions, From Neutral Observers” While I frequently appreciate your principled analysis, today’s thought process was an especially evenhanded discussion of a very complex issue.The complexity of the matters giving rise to and exacerbating this economic crisis is nearly beyond the understanding of even most New York Times readers. To do justice to The Times and its readers on most any of the aspects of the crisis would truly require broadsheet-sized news stories to supply the facts necessary for readers to really be able to arrive at informed opinions.While there is some continuity of theme to all these events — greed, absence of regulation, cheap money, irresponsible lending and management and so on — the nuance is massive and nearly impossible to explore in 1,000 words.
Date: 19 December 2008
By Dealbook
Dealbook
Retailers in the United States have had a tough 2008 as consumer spending came to a screeching halt. But 2009 isn’t looking any better. In fact, most retail experts and economists predict that it will probably be worse.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
CNN’s new less cluttered look is a tacit rejection of the information overload that has typified television news for much of this decade.
Date: 19 December 2008
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
As political director of NBC News, Chuck Todd became a regular and prominent presence in NBC’s broadcast and cable coverage of the presidential campaign.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Timothy Williams and Atheer Kakan
Timothy Williams
In a letter addressed to Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the reporter apologized for the incident, calling it an “ugly action,” an Iraqi government official said.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Danny Hakim and Raymond Hernandez
Danny Hakim
Friends say Andrew M. Cuomo is quietly fuming that Caroline Kennedy is now the favorite for a Senate seat.