Time Magazine's Placebo Person of the Year: Zuckerberg Instead of Assange

[astrid]

http://www.alternet.org/media/149219...aks%27_assange

WikiLeaks has, in the course of just a few months, turned the world of U.S. policy and foreign relations upside down. What was Time thinking?
December 15, 2010 |

Time Magazine readers chose Julian Assange as Person of the Year. Hands down. But Time's editors preferred to go with the safer choice: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The loser in this contest is Time Magazine. Hands down.Time editors might have felt U.S. government pressure to jump over the obvious man of the year, Julian Assange. But we, the people, must thank Assange for giving us troves of secret information that can help us understand the inner workings of our government. We see our soldiers shooting down innocent Iraqis with no accountability; we see our Afghan "ally" squirreling $52 million in cash out of the country; we see our diplomats being told to spy on UN staff; we see our ambassador in Honduras acknowledging an illegal coup that our government ends up supporting; we see the Obama administration browbeating countries to water down a climate accord. The revelations go on and on. For this, WikiLeaks and Assange are rightfully the "People's Choice."

[astrid]

Will be interesting to see if Zuckerberg accepts it. I hear he only now owns 25% of the facebook shares now anyways, it would be interesting to research who owns the other 75%. I heard there is now a FB link with American Express and AE are Vatican owned... so curiouser and curiouser...

[Ahkenaten]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrr that little wise-ass Mark Zuckerberg again.....as FACEBOOK is a dossier-building entity very supportive to USA and other 3-letter agencies it makes perfect sense that the corporate media would support that little wise guy.

People need to rent the movie Network to reinforce the message about corporate-controlled mass media

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08

[DawgBone]

It won't be long before Time's 'Person of the Year' is a corporation.

[Celine]

The list is very interesting..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year

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[astrid]

Very interesting indeed... hmmmmm is all can say.... i wonder how many of those were the "peoples choice"

[ponda]

Posted by DawgBone (here)
It won't be long before Time's 'Person of the Year' is a corporation.

LOL

Brilliant

[ponda]

Posted by astrid (here)
http://www.alternet.org/media/149219...aks%27_assange

Reminds me a bit of when Obama got the nobel and also when The Hurt Locker beat Avatar for the best pic award.The matrix looks after its own

[Ahkenaten]

Posted by DawgBone (here)
It won't be long before Time's 'Person of the Year' is a corporation.

Righto - as the basis for giving certain rights to corporations is their ostensible legal "personhood" status that may not be very far off, indeed.

[astrid]

For sure Ponda, and they don't seem to understand that they give EVEN more airtime to those they are trying to keep quiet , by manipulating things to thier ends...

They are doing a STELLAR job of exposing themselves....