Time Magazine Reveals Finalist Candidates For 2014 Person Of The Year
Source: Time Magazine-3 hours ago
Time magazine has narrowed down its list of candidates for the annual Person of the Year issue. This year's possible winners include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani and singer Taylor Swift. The list also includes groups of individuals, like the Ebola caregivers and protestors in Ferguson, Missouri.
Time magazine editor Nancy Gibbs revealed the eight finalists on the "Today" show Monday morning. The candidates are those who the magazine believes have had the biggest influence on the news within the past year. Protestors in Ferguson, following the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, made the list because they "launched a whole new conversation about race relations and the administration of justice in this country," Gibbs said.
While some may question Taylor Swift's inclusion for consideration, Gibbs credited the pop star for her impact as a businesswoman this year, making the bold decision to pull all of her music off of the streaming service Spotify. The winner is chosen each year by the magazine's editors, but readers can still place their vote on Time's website. Previous winners have included Pope Francis, President Barack Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/time-2014-person-of-the-year-nancy-gibbs-magazine_n_6287666.html
BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)if that's the list.
Then I'd get canned.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Taylor Swift pulls her record off Spotify and that is enough to make this list!!?? Give me Malala please
BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)You'd have to finesse the burning and looting though.
It's a tough year for this award. Nothing jumps out. How else does Taylor Swift even enter the conversation?
7962
(11,841 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)It's not always a positive impact. Hitler was Man of the Year, I believe. As was Stalin.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Someone else was way ahead of me:
-- Bob Dylan, 1965
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Things are seriously fucked up.
As others have said, where is Malala?
My choice would be the Ferguson protesters, followed by the Ebola doctors. Taylor Swift is an insult.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)It's not an accolade, it's an acknowledgement of someone who set the tone of things.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)He's been in the news a lot this past year.
starroute
(12,977 posts)And what has the NFL done lately to make the news?
Am I that much out of the loop or are these choices just lame?
big_dog
(4,144 posts)jmowreader
(50,567 posts)As flimsy as this list is, he's probably the best choice. Taylor Swift? Come on.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)The NFL's mostly been in the news for making horrible decisions about suspensions for players who get in trouble with the law.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)Derek V
(532 posts)then what the hell will she have to complain about on her next album?
big_dog
(4,144 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Kids fucking die of entirely preventable diseases because people like you lie about vaccine safety.
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)I read some astonishing stats yesterday:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/G/cases-deaths.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5343a4.htm#fig1
SOURCE OF LINKS (not reflective of my personal views on the subject): http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/wishy-washy-vaccines-thank/
...In 1962, the year before the measles vaccine was introduced, there were a mere 408 deaths from measles in this country, out of approximately three to four million cases (the insert shows only 481,530, but thats reported cases. Measles is generally a mild illness, and the vast majority of cases were never reported. It is generally estimated by the CDC that the true number is between three and four million.) Would it be great if none of those 408 people died? Absolutely. But the greatness level of saving those 408 lives drops if the means of bringing it about sentences half of the population to lifelong chronic illness, doesnt it?
...Similarly, the rate of hepatitis B in young children (ages 0-4) was less than 2 in 100,000, with the death rate being far, far lower than that, before the development of the vaccine (see figure 1 in the link). And the risk dropped for older children and didnt rise significantly until children were 15 years old. Would it be great if those few children who died from hepatitis B did not do so? Certainly! And mothers who are hepatitis B carriers might consider it worthwhile to vaccinate their newborns. But risking damage to the immune systems of low-risk infants would do nothing to change that. Those children were never at risk of encountering hepatitis B before puberty in the first place. Vaccinating your low-risk child is not going to have any effect whatsoever on the risk that a child of a mother with hepatitis B will develop the disease or not.
These should give you pause on the accuracy of the attacks deployed in your post. Advertising isn't science.
Yupster
(14,308 posts)I thought it would be that al-Baghdadi guy who's in charge of ISIS.
Realizing the dream of the Caliphate after more than 500 years was worth Man of the Year I thought, but they don't listen to me.