Now They Like Protesters!
It's the moment of the year we've all been waiting for. Time magazine has bestowed its Nobel-like honor of "Man of the Year." (I don't mean to brag but back in 2006, I was actually the recipient of the award. Yes, really.)
They now clumsily call the award "Person of the Year." But rather than taking the difficult course of naming an actual, you know, person, they've gone with the abstract again. And it's ... "the protester." They're trying to synthesize whatever motivated the Arab Spring with Occupy Wall Street, I guess, and I would have to read the article to see how well they do it. We all know that we're not going to waste our time reading that article, right? I almost openly kidded someone for reading Time at the airport on Sunday.
Anyway, two thoughts on the matter.
Remember back in 2009 and 2010 when average Americans across the land rose up in mass protest against their government? Funny how protesting has only gotten cool since then.
And it's funny that "the protester" didn't make it onto any actual Time magazine covers this year. I can't find it but I think Claire wrote a post about how the U.S. edition of a cover had a story on anxiety the week the international edition featured protesters.
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Oct '11
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It's an attempt to make Occupy Wall Street the people of the year. Time knows that would be ridiculous, so they're pretending to include the Arab protesters too.
Jun '10
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Protests for me, but not for thee.
Thanks for reminding me why I haven't missed anything by dumping Time several years ago.
Edited on Dec 14, 2011 at 7:03amJun '10
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I'd choose the New York Police Department instead. They calmly took huge amounts of verbal and even some physical abuse. They let it roll off their backs. They did that for the sake of peace and tranquility, and I applaud them for it. They didn't let the protestors provoke the international incident that they longed for.
Sep '10
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Surely these are the views we've all been waiting for.
Apr '11
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The editor of Time was on CNBC this morning explaining their rationale. I had the same reaction as you did. This is why Time is completely irrelevant and its circulation is abysmal. The naked desire of the "right thinking folks" to frame the narrative is obvious and nauseating.
I've always known that the MSM slants leftward, but the obvious attempt to marginalize and vilify the Tea Party folks brought home to me just how determined they are to force their worldview on the their victims, ahem - I mean "viewers/readers".
I would say never again will I buy/read Time, but I haven't in such a long time that it's pointless.
May '11
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It's almost like something out of the Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged that they don't pick an individual as "Man of the Year" any more. It's like Ellsworth Toohey is on the editorial board saying that individuals no longer matter, people are nothing unless they act collectively.
What a rag.
Apr '11
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Maybe they should have a blank cover and declare their person of the year to be their readers.
Aug '11
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Very astute!
Dec '10
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So dissent is patriotic again? I remember it was during the Bush years, but in January 2009 it stopped being so. It appears that now, as long as it is directed against Wall Street Fat Cats, it is.
In a similar vein, I notice that Secretary (General?) Powell is again a respectable man, not the house Negro. I am not sure when this happened. How did he rehabilitate himself?
Jul '11
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Maybe they should have a blank cover and declare their person of the year to be their reader.Fixed it for you.
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Edited on Dec 14, 2011 at 1:34pmDec '10
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Dime Magazine? Oh, you mean Time Magazine. You know a dime isn't even worth a dime anymore and this thing is worth even less. Intellectual inflation is the problem. Bad ideas and shallow people drive out good ideas and deep thinkers. The Nobel Prize has sunk to the absurdity of awarding a President of the United States a Nobel before he could even try to do anything. It was just on the basis of his vague good intentions. Of course, now that he has had the chance he still hasn't done anything.
Dime Magazine. I wouldn't give a penny for this rubbish.