2013 Time Person of Year Short List / Top 10 - Pope, Snowden, Cyrus, Cruz

[LVZ]

Person of the Year is an annual issue of the United States newsmagazine Time that features and profiles a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."

Selection happens in two days. Top reader choice so far is Miley Cyrus.

My guess: (1) Edward Snowden (2) Pope Francis

Your guess?

[Bluenorthwest]

1. I'd rather see Miley take it than some anti gay, anti choice creep.

nt

[n2doc]

2. Bezos or Cruz

The first because they want to suck up to the new media king, and the second to suck up to the repubs and push his 2016 hopes.

Should be one of your two picks, though.

[Las Vegas Mixx]

3. Bezos or Rouhani - more about future impact than 2013 n/t

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. Miley is being pushed by Anonymous and 4chan.

They even have some hacks they are spreading so that people can vote many times at once.

[frazzled]

9. The readers don't choose; the editors do

Oddly, according to this article from TIME itself, it says the readers chose General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt as their POY. WTF?

http://poy.time.com/2013/12/09/top-ten-finalists-for-person-of-the-year/

[Are_grits_groceries]

13. I know.

It's still amusing to see who gets the public vote.
Moot was chosen one year.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Top 5 list differs here

1. Miley Cyrus

2. Narendra Modi

3. Edward Snowden

4. Bashar Al-Assad

5. Vladimir Putin

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/525695/20131128/vladimir-putin-bashar-al-assad-edward-snowden.htm#.UqXc_yfDuSo

[LVZ]

8. Aussie article was 12 days ago - reader polling results vs actual selections ??

Of course, maybe Time Magazine is trying to get media buzz in different markets, American vs international.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. "Here are the 10 nominees for Time Magazine's Person of the Year:"

Yeah, that's a carefully written article, isn't it? The moral is: the 'International Business Times' can't count. Do not take stock tips from them. Or anything.

[seabeyond]

6. pope or cruz. nt

[randome]

16. I'll call it for the Pope, too.

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[DesMoinesDem]

7. It will be Snowden without question. It's not even close.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Really? I'd say Time editors would be more partial to the Pope

I haven't noticed Time covering Snowden heavily. Whereas Francis made the cover twice in the year:

http://topics.time.com/pope-francis/

[LVZ]

15. Ladbrokes: Snowden 2/1 and Pope 3/1 ------- BitCoin Predictious: Snowden favored

Normally I would look at intrade.com for accurate odds but it was shut down by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this past year.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/11/3753082/intrade-shutdown-cftc-us-december-2012

Other options are betting sites and a BitCoin-based intrade replacement.

Even though Snowden is heavily favored by Predictious, BitCoin is "techie" biased. Its predictions are likely to follow.

http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/Awards/TIME-Magazine-Person-of-the-YearAwards/TIME-Magazine-Person-of-the-Year-t210005745

https://www.predictious.com/search?q=time+person+of+year (BitCoin)

[Gothmog]

12. Wendy Davis did not make the list

I am very disappointed that she did not make the list

[cynatnite]

17. I think it ought to be Nelson Mandela...

Even in death, the man still has a profound impact on the world.

If not him, Malala would be a good choice as well. We need a woman. It's been a long while since a woman has gotten this.

[Cha]

24. Really. that would be the most earned interesting choice .. but, just that

cruz and cyrus are on the list renders it a farce, imv.

WTF has cruz done except cost the US taxpayers $24 Billion $$$$?

Not sure what cyrus did either and not interested enough to find out.

[LVZ]

18. In Britain: Snowden named Person of the Year 2013 by UK's "The Guardian" national newspaper

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/edward-snowden-voted-guardian-person-of-year-2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_guardian

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

19. Hopefully it'll be the Pope, but thrilled to see Edith Windsor on this list.

[BlueCheese]

20. It has to be Snowden.

Nobody else has had as much impact on the news this year.

[LVZ]

21. Slate.com Person of the Year: Snowden

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/10/edward_snowden_is_moneybox_s_person_of_the_year.html

So when I tell you that Edward Snowden is 2013's Person of the Year, don't necessarily take that as an endorsement of all his views and everything he's done. But there's no doubt that his actions have had broad significance, upending German politics and technology companies' business strategies. Snowden's revelations and his controversial flight to Russia bring together the defining trends of our era—social media and the continued legacy of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

[joeybee12]

22. It should be Snowden, but I bet Time goes with the Pope...

Everyone else is an also-ran...at least this year.

[LVZ]

23. Betting site Bovada odds: (1) Pope Francis 3/2 (2) Snowden 5/2 (3) Assad 7/2

https://twitter.com/BovadaLV

[LVZ]

25. So the betting site was right - it's Pope Francis. n/t