# Andy Rooney

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney/601954>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney/601954 "2011-11-05T13:47:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![verifacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/90ced4/32.png) [@verifacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verifacs)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney/601954/1 "2011-11-05T13:47:25Z")

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Why are they showing both Andy and Mickey photos as “younger years pictures”

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney/601954/2 "2011-11-05T15:06:00Z")

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Who are ‘they’?

Who is ‘Mickey’? Mickey Mantle? Mickey Rourke? Mickey Mouse?

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney/601954/3 "2011-11-05T15:15:57Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Who are ‘they’?
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> Who is ‘Mickey’? Mickey Mantle? Mickey Rourke? Mickey Mouse?

The other Rooney.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney/601954/4 "2011-11-05T16:22:54Z")

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I bet “they” are the news media. Andy Rooney died yesterday.

As to why pix of Mickey Rooney are being shown, it appears a lot of folks in the media biz are clueless. Either that or our OP is clueless.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney/601954/5 "2011-11-05T16:31:15Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> I bet “they” are the news media. Andy Rooney died yesterday.

Aside from half-paying attention to CNN, and reading the CBS article in the other thread, I haven’t seen any other coverage. ‘They’ are probably a specific network or page.