Sen. Bernie Sanders, a man whose hair is as wispy as his voice is raspy, nosed out female education activist Malala Yousafzali in an online poll for the best person in the world that really doesn’t mean anything, anyway.
Earlier today, Time named President Obama "Person of the Year" — again — sparking a debate over the decision's merits.
The people have spoken — but Time Magazine chose to ignore them and hand its "Person of the Year" honorific to President Barack Obama instead.
You'd think that after 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole was voted 2009's Most Influential Person in the World thanks in overwhelming part to a flood of 4chan users looking to game the system, Time magazine would quit handing the decision to Internet users.
Facebook's CEO had a huge year, what with the Hollywood blockbuster about him and the explosive growth of his social network. Now, as if to confirm the culture's Facebook obsession, Time has named Mark Zuckerberg "Person of the Year."
Seriously, we laughed out loud at the backhanded way Bill O'Reilly praised Time managing editor Richard Stengel for picking boring old Ben Bernanke as Time's 2009 'Entity of the Year'. The guy knows how to undermine in a funny way!
Assuming Barack Obama pulls this thing off next week, we imagine we're due for a deluge of media gushing over our First Black President. No, seriously, it'll make the last two years look like a dress rehearsal. And it will all lead to a glorious crescendo of treacly nonsense by January, when Obama, secret socialist…
Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' is Russian president Vladimir Putin! Congrats Vlad! The guy has restored relative economic stability to one of the most fascinating countries of our time and his loose interpretation of term limits and free speech make him a political lightning rod. Over the last several…
Drudge is linking this morning to Time's 'Person of the Year' prelude, in which Brian Williams, Aretha Franklin and Stephen King put forth their noms. His headline, for a column that appeared five days ago, about a month-old story, reads "NBC News Anchor Brian Williams Picks 'Mother Earth' For Time 'Person Of…
Live from Time's "Person of the Year" panel discussion going on right now at the Time and Life building: "Brian Williams' mic just cut out. 'I'll be at Chuckles on Route 3,' he says. Big laugh. Then he goes on to nominate frigging Mother Earth. Sigh."
Given all the accolades You have won over the past year, isn't it time we started harnessing Your enormous potential? What better use of Your talents could there be, other than designing the next Gawker t-shirt? We're not talking some namby-pamby email slogan submission this time, neither. We're getting all up in…
In a stunning upset, YOU—"the consumer"—have been named Ad Agency of the Year by AdAge magazine. Since YOU have already garnered recognition for your work as the Time Person of the Year, the Spin Artist of the Year , and probably countless other accolades we're as of yet unfamiliar with, we're sure this award comes…
From Spin's January issue. YouTube, MySpace, and blogs all name-checked on first big-type page. Don't take this personally, but we're really, really starting to hate You.
The apparent legacy of Time magazine choosing "You" as their 2006 "Person of the Year" seems to be a growing list of other outlets also choosing You for their "X of the Year." The latest is Fox Sports' Kevin Hench, who names You as Fan of the Year, however vaguely tongue-in-cheek (ETP points out there's no mention of …
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Still hunting in vain for a single positive reaction to Time magazine naming "You" as their 2006 "Person of the Year"? You won't find that positivism in the corpus of ubersnob George Will, who sneers, "So much of what is done on the web is people getting on there and writing their diaries as though everyone ought to…
In other news from Time's Person of the Year selection of "You," a small coda related to automaker Chrysler forking over millions to be the sole POTY sponsor. As Daniel Radosh points out, several of their genius ads began with the tagline "You Might Not Be Time Person of the Year." But then again, You might, and in…
As if anything could preclude our right to mock. Time's annual hype machine finally reached its crescendo this weekend, announcing the choice for the 2006 "Person of the Year": You. That's right — You, over there, with the face. Even if you're a fan of the abstract POTY selections (as opposed to a single person or…
Fans of Stephen Colbert succeeded in making our own "Person of the Year" poll just slightly more irrelevant than the actual Person of the Year proceedings at Time magazine. Their readers are going for Hugo Chavez as of this writing, who seems about as likely as Colbert to score the Time cover. Enjoy our final…
Scant days remain before Time magazine reveals their choice for the 2006 Person of the Year, and the excitement is palpable! Go ahead, palpate that excitement. You know you want to. In the meantime, you can submit any photo for a pretend Time POTY cover that may display above the rubes mobbing Times Square. (Send us…
