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| 55. Hear Hear! or is it Here here! |
| -Why Time Magazine's Person of the Year choice is SO Incredibly Revealing |
Land Shark |
Dec-15-10 07:19 PM |
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Yeah well for folks who recently put Palin on their cover? |
IsrealBissel |
Dec-15-10 07:22 PM |
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Sure. ok. But Palin has at least a small radical core support, Unaccountable government has zero |
Land Shark |
Dec-15-10 07:27 PM |
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Another reason for me not to facebook. |
Arctic Dave |
Dec-15-10 07:27 PM |
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and the same reason peopIe |
Carolina |
Dec-15-10 08:25 PM |
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Remember earlier this year when Newsweak was sold for a dollar? |
Dawson Leery |
Dec-15-10 07:30 PM |
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Exactly. And platforms like WikiLeaks are replacing the old press publications. |
Kaleko |
Dec-15-10 07:56 PM |
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Older TIME quote: "{Wikileaks} could become as important a journalistic tool as FOIA" |
Land Shark |
Dec-16-10 09:13 AM |
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I just heard an interview on KTLK in Los Angeles |
JDPriestly |
Dec-15-10 07:31 PM |
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Yet look how facebook tries to shut down unincorporated movements |
Land Shark |
Dec-15-10 07:37 PM |
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I am not on Facebook and did not realize that. |
JDPriestly |
Dec-15-10 08:09 PM |
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Teenie Boppers Unite! |
earthlover |
Dec-16-10 02:58 PM |
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Facebook and wikileaks are not comparable in the least: |
liberation |
Dec-16-10 05:43 PM |
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It'd be funny if, now that they've announced Zuckerberg, they'd put Assange on the cover... |
ClassWarrior |
Dec-15-10 07:33 PM |
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Too late: |
NYCGirl |
Dec-15-10 07:37 PM |
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Zuckerberg's seemingly hi-def face is a bit "too much information" - 4 me anyway... nt |
Land Shark |
Dec-15-10 07:38 PM |
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It's an interesting face. But he does have remarkable eyes. |
NYCGirl |
Dec-15-10 07:39 PM |
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If they're real, they're real alien-looking. (as in ET...) nt |
Land Shark |
Dec-16-10 02:14 PM |
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NOW I know why this Person of the Year cover gives me the creeps! |
eShirl |
Dec-15-10 09:12 PM |
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He's the perfect person of the year. |
RichGirl |
Dec-16-10 12:55 PM |
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And that was Zuckerberg? |
dbmk |
Dec-16-10 02:28 PM |
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And WHAT did he do THIS year? |
RetroLounge |
Dec-16-10 05:22 PM |
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I watched Richard Stengel interviewed on TV news tonight |
elias49 |
Dec-15-10 07:40 PM |
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That number is wrong. Facebook has 500 MILLION members. |
NYCGirl |
Dec-15-10 07:42 PM |
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You're correct. My honest mistype. |
elias49 |
Dec-15-10 07:47 PM |
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Isn't posting on Facebook all about YOU? How is that non- |
NYCGirl |
Dec-15-10 07:50 PM |
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Posting on Facebook IS all about you in a way - |
elias49 |
Dec-15-10 07:59 PM |
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And it's about communication — maybe lots of it is trivial, |
NYCGirl |
Dec-15-10 08:00 PM |
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Uh, that's 500,000,000 members. You're about a thousand times |
MineralMan |
Dec-15-10 08:02 PM |
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It's absolutee bullshit |
malaise |
Dec-15-10 07:53 PM |
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Now, now. He's the current darling of the wealthy elite |
leftstreet |
Dec-15-10 08:10 PM |
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Yeah, all those 500 million wealthy elite people on Facebook. |
NYCGirl |
Dec-16-10 11:19 AM |
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We shouldn't care what some private publication thinks. nt |
newtothegame |
Dec-16-10 02:36 PM |
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So, start your own magazine and you can put the photo of anyone |
MineralMan |
Dec-15-10 07:59 PM |
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No, I don't subscribe to TIME and don't think I ever will (I did, years ago) |
Land Shark |
Dec-15-10 08:12 PM |
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This happens every year. Time's POTY is nothing but a cheap stunt, |
Occam Bandage |
Dec-15-10 08:04 PM |
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The selection of Zuckerberg is apt for the MSM |
Loge23 |
Dec-15-10 08:06 PM |
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The unemployed American would have been a good choice |
Liberal_in_LA |
Dec-15-10 08:10 PM |
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Absolutely. -eom- |
HuckleB |
Dec-15-10 08:19 PM |
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That's OK - the movie that will inevitably be made about Assange |
RaleighNCDUer |
Dec-15-10 08:42 PM |
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not necessarily complementary and never has been |
TorchTheWitch |
Dec-15-10 09:27 PM |
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True, and all incorporated into the take of the OP, I think. nt |
Land Shark |
Dec-16-10 06:38 AM |
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how so? |
TorchTheWitch |
Dec-16-10 02:09 PM |
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TIME is a business whose objective is selling magazines. |
TexasObserver |
Dec-16-10 07:04 AM |
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Then why would they go to such lengths to alienate their readers/buyers? |
Land Shark |
Dec-16-10 09:05 AM |
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Because it's a good story. |
TexasObserver |
Dec-16-10 09:15 AM |
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Not sure this is going to get that much play for TIME, based on the assumed TIME plan for doing so. |
2 Much Tribulation |
Dec-17-10 12:46 PM |
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New? |
nxylas |
Dec-16-10 09:43 AM |
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It didn't start this year. It blew up this year. |
TexasObserver |
Dec-16-10 10:33 AM |
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Actually, and it is pretty well know, |
MadHound |
Dec-16-10 02:09 PM |
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan came in second? IT'S AN OUTRAGE. |
Brickbat |
Dec-16-10 07:14 AM |
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TIME helped lie America into two illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous wars. |
Octafish |
Dec-16-10 09:33 AM |
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z |
riverdale |
Dec-16-10 03:04 PM |
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Luce printed the Zapruder film frames BACKWARDS in order to create a false impression. |
Octafish |
Dec-16-10 06:23 PM |
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Exactly. |
lumberjack_jeff |
Dec-16-10 11:14 AM |
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Kicked and recommended, I couldn't agree more. |
Uncle Joe |
Dec-16-10 11:27 AM |
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If they had gone by Internet voting Mustafa Atatürk would have been Person of the Century instead of |
Freddie Stubbs |
Dec-16-10 11:45 AM |
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Because we have become victims of our own technology. |
-..__... |
Dec-16-10 12:21 PM |
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Why does a generally anti-media site like DU even care abt who Time chose for POY? |
newtothegame |
Dec-16-10 12:23 PM |
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Because it's revealing. At least that's what I thought. Many here are smart enuf to already know... |
Land Shark |
Dec-16-10 02:10 PM |
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It's Simple: Zuckerberg Collects Info On Us and Turns It Over to Our Corporate Masters |
NashVegas |
Dec-16-10 12:26 PM |
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It doesnt mean anything. Time has never chosen based on their reader poll. n/t |
stevenleser |
Dec-16-10 12:39 PM |
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It's just a list to get people to buy their magazine. |
AndrewP |
Dec-16-10 12:40 PM |
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You forgot one distinction |
TomClash |
Dec-16-10 12:44 PM |
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I think generational bias may have a role, too. |
Odin2005 |
Dec-16-10 07:20 PM |
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I loathe gen politics |
TomClash |
Dec-16-10 07:45 PM |
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Bingo |
Mosaic |
Dec-17-10 08:47 AM |
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I cancelled my subscription two days ago. |
sirthomas66 |
Dec-16-10 12:46 PM |
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Time, the new Fox. nt |
valerief |
Dec-16-10 01:23 PM |
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Nothing new about it, they have been right-leaning for a long time. |
Frisbee |
Dec-16-10 01:45 PM |
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True. |
valerief |
Dec-16-10 03:36 PM |
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Time was the FUX forerunner in oh so many ways. |
rurallib |
Dec-16-10 03:43 PM |
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All this is very interesting... |
AlbertCat |
Dec-16-10 01:37 PM |
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Hear Hear! or is it Here here! |
robinlynne |
Dec-16-10 01:40 PM |
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"Cop-out Of the Year" should be the title of this issue. |
loudsue |
Dec-16-10 02:02 PM |
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Good. It will make more of an impact if they do it next year. |
Evoman |
Dec-16-10 02:10 PM |
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Irony at its best.... |
midnight |
Dec-16-10 02:13 PM |
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Why all the drama over this? |
LawnLover |
Dec-16-10 02:17 PM |
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So if there is nothing to see... |
liberation |
Dec-16-10 05:46 PM |
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Lady Gaga was 3rd?!! WTF? |
Harry Monroe |
Dec-16-10 02:18 PM |
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I know! Gaga was so 2009. It should have been Ke$ha! |
reformist2 |
Dec-16-10 02:30 PM |
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Who the hell is Ke$ha? |
Harry Monroe |
Dec-16-10 03:26 PM |
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It strikes me as saying a lot about the poverty of candidates among the elites |
Land Shark |
Dec-16-10 04:02 PM |
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I think the selection is lame. |
KillCapitalism |
Dec-16-10 02:21 PM |
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Wow -- that rag is still around? Who knew? Who cares? |
nichomachus |
Dec-16-10 02:46 PM |
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Time is the new People. nt |
City Lights |
Dec-16-10 03:26 PM |
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I doubt Zuckerberg would've been considered had "The Social Network" not propelled awareness of his |
MisterP |
Dec-16-10 03:35 PM |
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That movie didn't really do all THAT well... nt |
Land Shark |
Dec-18-10 12:42 PM |
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Hahhh... Apparently Face Book is down right now. |
Ellipsis |
Dec-16-10 03:38 PM |
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Well, that's the "Liberal" media for ya! n/t |
RoccoR5955 |
Dec-16-10 04:14 PM |
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very powerful comparison!! |
nashville_brook |
Dec-16-10 04:56 PM |
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Time magazine is just as rightwing as Facebook. |
Major Hogwash |
Dec-16-10 05:44 PM |
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happy holiday |
kpete |
Dec-16-10 05:47 PM |
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I won in 2006. |
The Hitman |
Dec-16-10 06:29 PM |
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If the poll was legit, and everyone who voted for Assange cancels their subscriptions, |
SoCalDem |
Dec-16-10 06:44 PM |
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Zuckerberg would've made a better person of the year back in 2007 or earlier. |
LLStarks |
Dec-16-10 06:45 PM |
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Back in the 30's Hitler made the cover... |
rasputin1952 |
Dec-16-10 06:55 PM |
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You really want to go by a poll? |
former9thward |
Dec-16-10 07:03 PM |
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Problems with polls = problems with democracy |
Land Shark |
Dec-17-10 08:00 AM |
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