astrid
17th December 2010, 23:39
http://www.alternet.org/media/149219/time_magazine%27s_placebo_person_of_the_year%3A_facebook%27s_zuckerberg_instead_of_wikileaks%27_assa nge
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."
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."