AceRothstein
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Maybe the OP should start his own magazine and have a MOTY. I'm sure he'd sell a lot of subscriptions.
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Being as only 8% of people get their news from Fox News and probably fewer people listen to Talk Radio (1%) therefore Rush Limbaugh probably get less than that , neither of your choices would meet the criteria for Time Magazines inflectional news makers. Your choices effect a small demographic effect in other words.
TV Is Americans' Main Source of News
I think we should systematically take one person off the list at a time until we come to 3 finalists and then come to a consensus on those three. What do you say?
Here's the list:
Here are the final ten contenders for TIMEs Person of the Year (listed alphabetically):
Bashar Assad, President of Syria
Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
Ted Cruz, Texas Senator
Miley Cyrus, Singer
Pope Francis, Leader of the Catholic Church
Barack Obama, President of the United States
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Edward Snowden, N.S.A. Leaker
Edith Windsor, Gay rights activist
I think Miley Cyrus should be taken off. Do we have 6 agreements?
Well let me think about thaYES, absoulutely no question whatsoever.
Maybe the OP should start his own magazine and have a MOTY. I'm sure he'd sell a lot of subscriptions.
Miley Cyrus is on the finalist list?
MILEY CYRUS!?!?!
Miley Cyrus is on the finalist list?
MILEY CYRUS!?!?!
No shit. I got to that name and thought it was a joke but alas, NEVER underestimate the shallowness of the American public.
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Lush Rimjob???
Wtf? Lush Rimjob had his shot last year with Flukegate. What did Fox Noise do?
Far as I'm concerned you can lop everybody off that list except Snowden and the Pope; they will have had the most lasting influence. Everybody else, thanks for playin'.
Any POTUS receiving such an award should have a much higher bar considering the free publicity they all get.
Miley Cyrus is on the finalist list?
MILEY CYRUS!?!?!
No shit. I got to that name and thought it was a joke but alas, NEVER underestimate the shallowness of the American public.
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Think that 4 votes, lol.
Lush Rimjob???
Wtf? Lush Rimjob had his shot last year with Flukegate. What did Fox Noise do?
TRANSLATION: I can't refute what you said about them, but I hate it anyway. So I'll ignore what you said, call them names, pretend I don't know what you already pointed out, and hope somebody believes me instead of you.
Translation: you have no answer.
No shit. I got to that name and thought it was a joke but alas, NEVER underestimate the shallowness of the American public.
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Think that 4 votes, lol.
I have and I can't lol at that. I am much closer to crying. It is pathetic but the reality that we face.
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TRANSLATION: I can't refute what you said about them, but I hate it anyway. So I'll ignore what you said, call them names, pretend I don't know what you already pointed out, and hope somebody believes me instead of you.
Translation: you have no answer.
Didn't even read the OP, did we?
Think all we need is 3 or 4 votes to take someone down from the list.
Miley Cyrus is now history.
Here are the final nine contenders for TIMEs Person of the Year (listed alphabetically):
Bashar Assad, President of Syria
Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
Ted Cruz, Texas Senator
Pope Francis, Leader of the Catholic Church
Barack Obama, President of the United States
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Edward Snowden, N.S.A. Leaker
Edith Windsor, Gay rights activist
Who do you think should be the next to go?
I would offer up Jeff Bezos to be offed.
Lush Rimjob???
Wtf? Lush Rimjob had his shot last year with Flukegate. What did Fox Noise do?
Far as I'm concerned you can lop everybody off that list except Snowden and the Pope; they will have had the most lasting influence. Everybody else, thanks for playin'.
Any POTUS receiving such an award should have a much higher bar considering the free publicity they all get.
Pretty much this. Obama does not really belong only because the president will influence the news more than anyone no matter who he is. I think Snowden is a good choice considering he changed the dialogue and started a trend that we are still talking about.
Translation: you have no answer.
Didn't even read the OP, did we?
Yes. The OP talked about media personnel, but the official Times's short list are the people I have listed. At least that's how I understood it when I glanced at it. I didn't totally read it, I admit. Did I miss something?
From TIME's website:
"The recognition goes to the person who TIMEs editors think most influenced the news this year, for good or bad."
In other words, it goes to the person who a bunch of liberal extremists think most influenced a larger bunch of liberal extremists (news writers and editors) this year.
By this standard, the list of candidates should consist of only two:
1.) Fox News writers, commentators, and editorial board; or
2.) Rush Limbaugh.
This year, those two had more influence on the liberals who write, slant, and disseminate most news, than anyone else. By repeatedly pointing out just how bad the various Obama administration scandals were, and not letting up in the face of attacks and abuse by the rest of the media....
.... they actually got the mainstream media to start criticizing the Obama administration, and got ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and various other leftist outlets to say BAD things about the Obamanites.
Such a reporting trend among the liberal press is unprecedented, and in fact astounding. And it never would have happened if not for the persistent and factual reporting of Fox News and Limbaugh. Of course, those liberal outlets have since stopped reporting on the IRS, Obama's ineffectual response to Syria's use of WMDs on its own population, the coverup of Benghazi deaths of U.S. officials, the NSA, etc., and are winding down their criticism of Obamacare fast.
Nonetheless, they actually performed a little investigative reporting for a while there. And that is such a monumental change, showing such an earth-shaking "influence on the news", that the people who made it happen should be a shoe-in for the award.
Of course, that's like asking a naughty five-year-old who finally got caught with chocolate smeared over his face and his hand in the candy bowl, who was forced to go and wash up and even buy some replacement candy: "Which parent or grandparent or aunt or uncle was the most responsible for making you clean up your act? We want to give them an award!" ...and expecting them to give an honest answer.
So, sure enough, neither Limbaugh nor Fox News appears on TIME's short list of candidates.
(sigh)
SSDD......
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TIME Person of the Year Finalists 2013 | TIME.com
The Top Ten Finalists for Person of the Year in 2013
By TIME Staff
Dec. 09, 2013
Here are the final ten contenders for TIMEs Person of the Year (listed alphabetically):
Bashar Assad, President of Syria
Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
Ted Cruz, Texas Senator
Miley Cyrus, Singer
Pope Francis, Leader of the Catholic Church
Barack Obama, President of the United States
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Edward Snowden, N.S.A. Leaker
Edith Windsor, Gay rights activist
(snip)
TIME selected its first Man of the Year in 1927. The recognition goes to the person who TIMEs editors think most influenced the news this year, for good or bad.
Time Magazines Person of the Year isn't about the media, it's about who influenced our news. Thusly, your two choices made no sense at all. I would guess more people are more aware of Miley Cyrus than either of your choices that you listed.
Didn't even read the OP, did we?
Yes. The OP talked about media personnel, but the official Times's short list are the people I have listed. At least that's how I understood it when I glanced at it. I didn't totally read it, I admit. Did I miss something?
Time Magazines Person of the Year isn't about the media, it's about who influenced our news. Thusly, your two choices made no sense at all. I would guess more people are more aware of Miley Cyrus than either of your choices that you listed.
Time Magazines Person of the Year isn't about the media, it's about who influenced our news. Thusly, your two choices made no sense at all. I would guess more people are more aware of Miley Cyrus than either of your choices that you listed.
The TIME website I quoted in the OP said:
"The recognition goes to the person who TIME’s editors think most influenced the news this year, for good or bad."
For the reasons I gave in the OP, Fox News or Rush Limbaugh have influenced the news more than any of the people on the list, possibly excepting Obama himself (a President always influences the news in major ways).
This year, those two had more influence on the liberals who write, slant, and disseminate most news, than anyone else. By repeatedly pointing out just how bad the various Obama administration scandals were, and not letting up in the face of attacks and abuse by the rest of the media....
.... they actually got the mainstream media to start criticizing the Obama administration, and got ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and various other leftist outlets to say BAD things about the Obamanites.
Such a reporting trend among the liberal press is unprecedented, and in fact astounding. And it never would have happened if not for the persistent and factual reporting of Fox News and Limbaugh. Of course, those liberal outlets have since stopped reporting on the IRS, Obama's ineffectual response to Syria's use of WMDs on its own population, the coverup of Benghazi deaths of U.S. officials, the NSA, etc., and are winding down their criticism of Obamacare fast.
Nonetheless, they actually performed a little investigative reporting for a while there. And that is such a monumental change, showing such an earth-shaking "influence on the news", that the people who made it happen should be a shoe-in for the award.
Of course, that's like asking a naughty five-year-old who finally got caught with chocolate smeared over his face and his hand in the candy bowl, who was forced to go and wash up and even buy some replacement candy: "Which parent or grandparent or aunt or uncle was the most responsible for making you clean up your act? We want to give them an award!" ...and expecting them to give an honest answer.
So, sure enough, neither Limbaugh nor Fox News appears on TIME's short list of candidates.