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Time Magazine - Man Of The Year?

Man/Person of the Year - Time Magazine?

  • Michael Jackson

    Votes: 310 93.1%

  • Sarah Palin

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Barack Obama

    Votes: 13 3.9%

  • Airline pilot and US hero Captain Sullenberger

    Votes: 6 1.8%

  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Leader of Iran

    Votes: 2 0.6%

  • Captain Richard Phillips - freed from Pirates

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • Total voters
    333
Or maybe not... he was the man of the year in 2008. But is it revelant ? GW Bush in 2004 was the men of the year..

1990 The Two George Bushes
1991 Ted Turner
1992 Bill Clinton
1993 The Peacemakers
1994 Pope John Paul II
1995 Newt Gingrich
1996 Dr. David Ho
1997 Andy Grove
1998 Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999 Jeff Bezos
2000 George W. Bush
2001 Rudolph Giuliani
2002 The Whistleblowers
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush
2005 Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
2006 You
2007 Vladimir Putin
2008 Barack Obama
 
If Barrack had the title last year it will NOT be him again I think.

Hopefully MJ will win the title.
 
MJ was not even in the TOP 20 most influencial Artist/Entertainer of the last century.


Louis Armstrong
Lucille Ball
The Beatles
Marlon Brando
Coco Chanel
Charlie Chaplin
Le Corbusier
Bob Dylan
T.S. Eliot
Aretha Franklin
Martha Graham
Jim Henson
James Joyce
Pablo Picasso
Rodgers &Hammerstein
Bart Simpson :O
Frank Sinatra
Steven Spielberg
Igor Stravinsky
Oprah Winfrey


'''TIME's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.'''

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear
 
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Calotte12 said:
MJ was not even in the TOP 20 most influencial Artist/Entertainer of the last century.


Louis Armstrong
Lucille Ball
The Beatles
Marlon Brando
Coco Chanel
Charlie Chaplin
Le Corbusier
Bob Dylan
T.S. Eliot
Aretha Franklin
Martha Graham
Jim Henson
James Joyce
Pablo Picasso
Rodgers &Hammerstein
Bart Simpson :O
Frank Sinatra
Steven Spielberg
Igor Stravinsky
Oprah Winfrey


'''TIME's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.'''

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear
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I can't believe this. BART SIMPSON?? You have to be freaking kidding me!! Is there a place we can write to to make sure Michael is considered at least a little???
 
Calotte12 said:
MJ was not even in the TOP 20 most influencial Artist/Entertainer of the last century.


Louis Armstrong
Lucille Ball
The Beatles
Marlon Brando
Coco Chanel
Charlie Chaplin
Le Corbusier
Bob Dylan
T.S. Eliot
Aretha Franklin
Martha Graham
Jim Henson
James Joyce
Pablo Picasso
Rodgers &Hammerstein
Bart Simpson :O
Frank Sinatra
Steven Spielberg
Igor Stravinsky
Oprah Winfrey


'''TIME's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.'''

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear
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That is extremely odd and unfair that Michael isn't on this list.
 
Michael should be it obviously, is this from an American perspective?
 
The Time Magazine choses the man, women or idea, that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." I am really wondering who it will be this year ... :scratch:
 
What kind of baloney is that ? Michael Jackson is not on that list!! WTF!
 
Obama...hhmmm...lets hope not....now Michael......this is the right choice.....go Michael....he deserves it!!!
 
LindaC781 said:
Who do you think it'll be?
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is Michael officially nominated? i haven't seen the whole thread...is there a link for nominations, or do they not officially let fans vote? i hope he is. he shoulda been, a long time ago, before this year. it's easy to believe he will not be, though invalid that would be for him not to be. the media are what they are, toward him.
 
What is interesting is that it is read 'for better or worse' and Hitler won one year!!!
Here is the complete list

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Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." Though TIME's list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list:

* Charles Lindbergh (1927) was the first, and the youngest, person to receive the distinction. He was 25 years old.
* Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman whom English King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry, was the first woman to receive the honor - 1936.
* Though a number of people have received the honor twice, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only person to have been named three times: 1932, 1934, and 1941.
* Adolf Hitler, the murderous leader of Nazi Germany, received the honor in 1938.
* A whole generation was named in 1966 - "Twenty-five and Under."
* In 1982, the computer became the first object ever to receive the distinction.
* There are several years where large groups of people were nominated: the American Fighting-Man (1950), the Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956), U.S. Scientists (1960), Twenty-Five and Under (1966), the Middle Americans (1968), and American Women (1975).

The Man of the Year Winners
1927 Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1928 Walter P. Chrysler
1929 Owen D. Young
1930 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1931 Pierre Laval
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1935 Haile Selassie
1936 Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937 Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
1938 Adolf Hitler
1939 Joseph Stalin
1940 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1942 Joseph Stalin
1943 George Catlett Marshall
1944 Dwight David Eisenhower
1945 Harry Truman
1946 James F. Byrnes
1947 George Catlett Marshall
1948 Harry Truman
1949 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1950 American Fighting-Man
1951 Mohammed Mossadegh
1952 Elizabeth II
1953 Konrad Adenauer
1954 John Foster Dulles
1955 Harlow Herbert Curtice
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957 Nikita Krushchev
1958 Charles De Gaulle
1959 Dwight David Eisenhower
1960 U.S. Scientists
1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1962 Pope John XXIII
1963 Martin Luther King Jr.
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 General William Childs Westmoreland
1966 Twenty-Five and Under
1967 Lyndon B. Johnson
1968 Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
1969 The Middle Americans
1970 Willy Brandt
1971 Richard Milhous Nixon
1972 Nixon and Kissinger
1973 John J. Sirica
1974 King Faisal
1975 American Women
1976 Jimmy Carter
1977 Anwar Sadat
1978 Teng Hsiao-P'ing
1979 Ayatullah Khomeini
1980 Ronald Reagan
1981 Lech Walesa
1982 The Computer
1983 Ronald Reagan & Yuri Andropov
1984 Peter Ueberroth
1985 Deng Xiaoping
1986 Corazon Aquino
1987 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1988 Endangered Earth
1989 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1990 The Two George Bushes
1991 Ted Turner
1992 Bill Clinton
1993 The Peacemakers
1994 Pope John Paul II
1995 Newt Gingrich
1996 Dr. David Ho
1997 Andy Grove
1998 Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999 Jeff Bezos
2000 George W. Bush
2001 Rudolph Giuliani
2002 The Whistleblowers
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush
2005 Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
2006 You
2007 Vladimir Putin
2008 Barack Obama
 
Beachlover said:
What is interesting is that it is read 'for better or worse' and Hitler won one year!!!
Here is the complete list

-------------------------------------------------------

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." Though TIME's list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list:

* Charles Lindbergh (1927) was the first, and the youngest, person to receive the distinction. He was 25 years old.
* Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman whom English King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry, was the first woman to receive the honor - 1936.
* Though a number of people have received the honor twice, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only person to have been named three times: 1932, 1934, and 1941.
* Adolf Hitler, the murderous leader of Nazi Germany, received the honor in 1938.
* A whole generation was named in 1966 - "Twenty-five and Under."
* In 1982, the computer became the first object ever to receive the distinction.
* There are several years where large groups of people were nominated: the American Fighting-Man (1950), the Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956), U.S. Scientists (1960), Twenty-Five and Under (1966), the Middle Americans (1968), and American Women (1975).

The Man of the Year Winners
1927 Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1928 Walter P. Chrysler
1929 Owen D. Young
1930 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1931 Pierre Laval
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1935 Haile Selassie
1936 Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937 Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
1938 Adolf Hitler
1939 Joseph Stalin
1940 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1942 Joseph Stalin
1943 George Catlett Marshall
1944  Dwight David Eisenhower
1945 Harry Truman
1946 James F. Byrnes
1947 George Catlett Marshall
1948 Harry Truman
1949 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1950 American Fighting-Man
1951 Mohammed Mossadegh
1952 Elizabeth II
1953 Konrad Adenauer
1954 John Foster Dulles
1955 Harlow Herbert Curtice
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957 Nikita Krushchev
1958 Charles De Gaulle
1959  Dwight David Eisenhower
1960 U.S. Scientists
1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1962 Pope John XXIII
1963 Martin Luther King Jr.
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 General William Childs Westmoreland
1966 Twenty-Five and Under
1967 Lyndon B. Johnson
1968 Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
1969 The Middle Americans
1970 Willy Brandt
1971 Richard Milhous Nixon
1972 Nixon and Kissinger
1973 John J. Sirica
1974 King Faisal
1975 American Women
1976 Jimmy Carter
1977 Anwar Sadat
1978 Teng Hsiao-P'ing
1979 Ayatullah Khomeini
1980 Ronald Reagan
1981 Lech Walesa
1982 The Computer
1983 Ronald Reagan & Yuri Andropov
1984 Peter Ueberroth
1985  Deng Xiaoping
1986 Corazon Aquino
1987 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1988 Endangered Earth
1989 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1990 The Two George Bushes
1991 Ted Turner
1992 Bill Clinton
1993 The Peacemakers
1994 Pope John Paul II
1995 Newt Gingrich
1996  Dr. David Ho
1997 Andy Grove
1998 Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999 Jeff Bezos
2000 George W. Bush
2001 Rudolph Giuliani
2002 The Whistleblowers
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush
2005 Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
2006 You
2007 Vladimir Putin
2008 Barack Obama
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oh god. this magazine ain't worth it, then. it makes it so easy for them to rile people, and hide a lie behind making bad good and good, bad, in the eyes of people who want their minds made up, already.. and it's gotta make even the winners for better, wonder. no matter what the articles say.
 
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It should definitely be Michael... this year alone, the public and press went totally crazy for Michael back in March. That had such a huge impact. When he died, we knew just how big he was to us. Michael brought the music back this year, isn't that influential enough?
 
tomthedude said:
It should definitely be Michael... this year alone, the public and press went totally crazy for Michael back in March. That had such a huge impact. When he died, we knew just how big he was to us. Michael brought the music back this year, isn't that influential enough?
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Its hard to know what they will be thinking or who other than Michael is up in the running. Its a very political publication so there is always a lot going on in politics or in the world they may be thinking about.
 
Hess said:
And what exactly does Bart Simpson has to do with politics? :lol:
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That isn't Man Of The Year, that's an influential Artist list. Man of the Year is pretty much political figures, not pop culture. Time is not like Rolling Stone or People Magazine
 
It would be cool if MJ is Time's Man of the Year 2009. But I think it'll more likely be Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or someone like that. The conservative movement in the U.S. has been massive this year. Tea parties, Washington protests, Fox News ratings crushing all other news networks, conservative talk radio dominating the air waves, global warming skepticism becoming bigger especially recently. You can't really deny the influence of conservatism in 2009. So Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, I think it'll be someone like that.
 
Okay, the last three...never heard of them... =/ Sarah Palin? Puhlease. You know, of course, I'm rootin' for Michael. This was his year. And by definition of the award, he definitely deserves to win. But...Obama became the first black president in history and won the Nobel Peace Prize,...but technically, he won the election in 2008 and he also won this award last year, so it's highly unlikely that it would happen again...So, this is really confusing...Michael is the rightful owner of this title, but after Taylor Swift took the AOTY award, I'm not gonna get my hopes up again and for this. =/
 
I just realised... Time magazine loves giving the award to someone or something unconventional like an inanimate object, a group of people or "you". So with that in mind the 2009 Person(s) of the Year could very well be the hackers who hacked into the Climate Research Unit and leaked thousands of emails casting doubt over the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
 
Oh God....Dubya won the title two years and one with his dad!?!?!? Forget this list. It's obviously invalid.
 
Calotte12 said:
MJ was not even in the TOP 20 most influencial Artist/Entertainer of the last century.


Louis Armstrong
Lucille Ball
The Beatles
Marlon Brando
Coco Chanel
Charlie Chaplin
Le Corbusier
Bob Dylan
T.S. Eliot
Aretha Franklin
Martha Graham
Jim Henson
James Joyce
Pablo Picasso
Rodgers &Hammerstein
Bart Simpson :O
Frank Sinatra
Steven Spielberg
Igor Stravinsky
Oprah Winfrey


'''TIME's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.'''
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So..., why its based only on American "culture" and society?

Is the American culture equaled the world leading measuring scale for claiming only these are the most influential individuals?


Excuse me, but how Bart Simpson, or Lucille Ball, Igor Stravinsky, Le Corbusier, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Martha Graham, Jim Henson, James Joyce... influenced Europe and the world?

Michael Jackson influenced world culture and society more than those, and more than Oprah Winfrey.


This voting for Man of the Year has always been ridiculous.

At least, Michaels death for the first time in history broke/crashed/collapsed ... the Internet = the worlds most important entity ... (it was not the virus or system error)
 
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Oh wow!!!!
Wouldn't expect it to be otherwise!!

Michael man of this year and of every year till the end of times!!!!
 
I am confused as to where that list came from. I took one off the Time web sight and it was completely different. Where are we getting that TOP 20 most influencial Artist/Entertainer of the last century list?
 
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