About the Times Person of the Year...

[thewiseguy]

Has Times gone off the deep end or what? For the past 12 years and with the exception of Vladimir Putin every time they have picked an American. My question is why? Has it become unpopular to pick villains? Or is it a mute point to look for a candidate outside United States?

Well I should have known not to expect any better after Guiliani won this in 2001.


:evilfrown:

[virgogal]

1. Time or Times ?

[jannyk]

2. So who did they pick? eom

[DJ13]

3. The kid who founded Facebook

[jannyk]

8. That's 'So Last Year'! Assange was winning last I looked. eom

[WinkyDink]

4. TIME magazine, not "the Times." And are you arguing that Facebook isn't a game-changer?

[thewiseguy]

6. Facebook has been around for years.

and suddenly in 2010 they have become a game changer? please...

What is next? Recognizing the developers of myspace, msn messenger,..

[jannyk]

9. Not this year it wasn't, but Assange was. eom

[hlthe2b]

5. I think they found a convenient (cop-out) compromise...

Arguably Facebook founder has been tremendously influential, but with more impact overall than Wikileaks? I doubt that when you think of the wide scope of impacts on legal system, media, government, diplomacy, secrecy, defense, and global politics. I also think Time magazine has become worried about the blowback from choosing a person with "great" influence, though the person themselves may be far from "great" or even demonstrably "evil." That Bin Laden did not get the cover in 2001 underscores that timidity. Such a change from 1939 when Hitler was put on the cover as person of the year.

I think it only underscores the dumbing down of American society- where the poorly educated or willfully ignorant (or willfully manipulative) react from emotion and not facts.

[damntexdem]

7. Julian Assange for Times person of the year!