Time magazine jumped the shark.

[warrior1]

Apparently, The collective 'We' are the Time persons of the year.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-12-17T033013Z_01_N15184106_RTRUKOC_0_US-TIME.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C5-domesticNews-3

NEW YORK (Reuters) - You were named Time magazine "Person of the Year" on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace.

"For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, Time's Person of the Year for 2006 is you," the magazine's Lev Grossman wrote.

The magazine has put a mirror on the cover of its "Person of the Year" issue, released on Monday, "because it literally reflects the idea that you, not us, are transforming the information age," Editor Richard Stengel said in a statement.
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You beat out candidates including Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China's President Hu Jintao, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and James Baker, the former U.S. Secretary of State who led Washington's bipartisan Iraq Study Group.


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My guess is they didn't want to put a dictator or criminal on the cover.

[madokie]

1. my guess is they see it for what it is, as stated

I'm glad to see the cyber world be recognized for what it is

It wasn't m$n that got us a majority it was the blogosphere

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. your last sentence refers to Boy George, right?

See, some of us read the entire post.

[pacalo]

3. I think it was a good choice.

We did beat the pros at their own game. We dug for the truth & fought for our rights despite having a do-nothing media & a do-nothing Congress. We organized so effectively that when mid-term elections came, the turnout of voters was so overwhelming that the voodoo math of the boy king's henchman was no match for our determination.

If the "voters of the 2006 mid-term elections" was too delicate a choice for them to consider, then "You" will suffice for me. We changed the dynamics in Washington for the rest of the boy king's term. What could be more significant than that.

[matcom]

4. "My guess is they didn't want to put a dictator or criminal on the cover."

why not? Hitler and Bin Laden have both graced their cover. "WE" is a PERFECT choice this year.

[derby378]

5. WE BEAT DIEBOLD.

We cast so many votes for Democratic candidates that the Diebold machines couldn't cancel them all out. I love that feeling.

[Drum]

6. It's a cop-out...

Everybody gets a trophy, because we're allllll winners!

Feh.

[warrior1]

7. I guess

I'm just to tired to be impressed. Weee, we are all winners!!!

[warrior1]

8. I could think of few

people I would have like to see on it.

Cindy Sheehan, Howard Dean, Jack Murtha, Nancy Pelosi or a member of the american military.

[Warpy]

9. They never shrank from dictators or criminals before.

I agree with the person(s) of the year, but not for their reasons.

I think we deserve it because we've finally awakened to the concentrated evil that has taken over one political party and have started to repudiate them and everything they stand for.

[Red Zelda]

10. They'd do anything

to keep any award out of the hands of any of the Democrats who won in November.
Time is scum.

[applegrove]

11. I like it that they didn't editorialize the cover..but leave it up to each of

us...in honor of user generated information that has particularly been the last few years. I like that. Information is no longer about how they editorialize. Bottom up. Democratic. Power to the people.

[Renew Deal]

12. I think they're correct.

It was my first choice.

[treestar]

13. Trouble is, anyone can look in this mirror

From Chimpy on.