Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" 543
Hugh Pickens writes "Time's editor Rick Stengel announced on The Today Show that 'The Protester' is Time Magazine's Person of the Year: From the Arab Spring to Athens, from Occupy Wall Street to Moscow. 'For capturing and highlighting a global sense of restless promise, for upending governments and conventional wisdom, for combining the oldest of techniques with the newest of technologies to shine a light on human dignity and, finally, for steering the planet on a more democratic though sometimes more dangerous path for the 21st century.' The initial gut reaction on Twitter seems to be one of derision, as Time has gone with a faceless human mass instead of picking a single person like Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi who Time mentions in the story and is widely acknowledged as the person who set off the 'Arab Spring.' In 2006, Time chose "You" with a mirrored cover to much disappointment, picked the personal computer as 'Machine of the Year' and Earth as 'Planet of the Year,' proving 'that it should probably just be "Story of the Year" if they aren't going to acknowledge an actual person,' writes Dashiell Bennett. 'By not picking any one individual, they've basically chosen no one.'"
I am the 1% (Score:5, Funny)
Who make first post
Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? (Score:5, Funny)
Funny, this is exactly the type of pompous pinhead slashdot response I was expecting to see.
Nice, a self-referential response.
The way Time is going... (Score:5, Funny)
The way Time is going, next year they'll name "The Subscriber."
Re:I am the 1% (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I am the 1% (Score:2, Funny)
Occupy Slashdot!
Re:I am the 1% (Score:4, Funny)
I resent your sexist accusations. This basement is my grandpa's.
Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? (Score:4, Funny)
Hate to say this, but on /., at least, inability to use homophones properly seems to be spread across the political and social spectrum pretty uniformly.
Homo-phones? Maybe he's scared of Telephone HIV, and that it can lead on to Hearing Aids.