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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
this is not it. it's not out yet. but it ain't gonna be Michael. too bad -for them
 
A person from Time magazine will be on The Today Show on Monday morning to discuss their top candidates and the selection process. Then they will reveal the Person of the Year on Wednesday also on the Today Show.
 
Honestly? I'm glad Michael wasn't chosen.
It would be another important magazine spreading lies about him. Because, good things don't sell magazines, right? It would be lies in print and in history.
Michael would be remembered for his tragical death and all the controversity before it. Enough is enough!
Thank God this didn't happen.
 
The short list is ridiculous, by itself (obama in for a second year in a row? or the founder of 'apple'..?), AND because MJ is not in it.. Jesus, they should go out and ask what people will recall 2009 for..
 
Not that this should make us feel any better but Michael comes up in quite a few of Time Magazine's "Top 10 of Everything 2009" lists...

Top 10 Movie performances (#5)
Top 10 Facebook stories (#7)
Top 10 quotes (#5) - "'This Is It' really means this is it."
Top 10 news stories (#6)

And Joe Jackson at the BET red carpet - Top 10 awkward moments (#9)

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html
 
christicehurst said:
Michael shouldn't win this award. It deserves to go out to someone who has worked hard in the world. Don't give it to Michael because he simply died.
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If they give him any award, it wouldn't be because he "simply died", it would be because everything he has achieved while he was alive. And he more than deserves.
 
Calotte12 said:
Time's 2009 Person of the Year is Will Wright

March 21 2008 / by Alvis Brigis
Category: Metaverse Year: 2009 Rating: 7

On December 26, 2009 Time Magazine announced superstar video-game designer Will Wright as its latest Person of the Year award recipient. Racking up multiple billions in sales for the recent releases of The Sims 3 (2009) and Spore (Sept. 2008) Wright conclusively asserted the dominance of massively multi-player online video games and, more importantly, ushered in the new era of Work/Play.
It’s almost impossible to walk into a school or a McDonald’s without immediately spotting some real-world manifestation of either Spore or The Sims. Custom trading cards, t-shirts, iPhone sleeves, iPhone flash games and hyper-viral 3D printouts featuring creatures generated in-game have become as pervasive as Pound Puppies at the peak of their craze eons ago. At the same time, this new marketing/merchandising phenomenon has also created a new class of millionaire creature, avatar and world designers with a median age of just sixteen years, thus irrevocably spreading the notion that pro-sumerism (consumers becoming micro-producers) and serious games as a potent economic force are for real. Thanks to Wright, no one on this planet will ever again look at the gaming the same way.
(cont.)

Of course, Wright is the brilliant poster-child of a broader User-Generated Content shift that traces it’s roots back to the launch of Linden Labs’ Second Life”, a pervasive open-ended virtual world that has of late showed signs of a possible resurgence. But it is undeniable that he is a cut above when it comes to blending function with fun.

Runners-up for Person of the Year 2009 included life scientist Craig Ventner (for his applied artificial life-forms), exponentialist Raymond Kurzweil (for popularizing the concept of Acceleration) and iPhone brainiac Steve Jobs (for designing such a popular hand-held mini-computer that it now rivals the PC market).

http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/219
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The results are not out yet!
 
Ben Bernanke is Time Man of the Year.
He is in charge of the Federal Reserve (America's monetary system)
 
Quote:
2003 The American Soldier



:clap: WOO-HOOOOO!!! I was Man Of The Year in 2003!! :lol:[/QUOTE]

LOL! Congratulations (a little late) on your honor and thank you for your service! :)
 
Ben Bernanke?!?!? Not since Hitler has they made such a terrible choice.... OK, that's taking it way too far. Bernanke caused the financial crisis we've been in for over a year now. He's the head of the most questionable organisation in the world today. If they've gone with Bernanke because of the amount of attention that's been brought too the federal reserve this year, then instead of its head, they should've gone with the man trying to bring them down, who bought attention to them this year in a big way, Ron Paul.
 
I don't know if Michael was ever nominated, but he should have been given this honor. But not surprisingly, he did not receive it. They gave it to that louse, Ben Bernanke. I guess there were worse people they could have chosen.
 
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