Time mag's watered down netroots / activism message

[lwcon]

The Sideshow blog's preferred choice for Time's Person of the Year, instead of y'all, would be Atrios — to represent the political sea change that netroots helped bring about this year.

Not a bad idea, though I'm a Digby man, myself.

As noted by Blue Gal in comments at C&L, the choice of "You" / Web 2.0 might well have been a "centrist" watering down of the reality that Sideshow's Avedon Carol highlights.

Another way to celebrate the new American spirit of independence would have been to cite four brave souls who stood up to the Bush administration in person:

• Stephen Colbert
• Ray McGovern
• Harry Taylor
• Helen Thomas

Wouldn't it be great to see those four heroes' smiling faces on the cover?

Actually, it should be five. Cindy Sheehan started it all the year before, and she should be there to preside over the new recruits.

What a statement that cover would make about a country founded on revolution and democracy — you'd almost get the idea that free speech was patriotic.

Look, mylar's nice and all. But even better is brass.

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[valerief]

1. You're right, but Time Magazine is irrelevant. Who cares who it is?

American Idol is more important than Time's Person of the Year.

Just my 2 cents.

[lwcon]

2. Somebody's reading those 6,965,000 mylar-covered copies n/t

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[valerief]

3. Maybe it's the same organizations that buy Ann Coulter books so

that she gets on best seller lists.

[Lasthorseman]

4. Not to worry

THEY are in the process of shutting us up. They will destroy the internet in one way or another.