Another Time Magazine Person of the Year Symposium
In keeping with its long tradition, Time Magazine will announce its Person of the Year for 2007 on December 20th.
The standard used in making their selection, will be based on the same guiding principle it has used since Charles Lindbergh was chosen as the magazine’s first recipient in 1927; which is:`` the person who influenced the world the most in the past year, for good or for ill’’, according to Betsy Burton, Public Relations Director at Time Magazine.
This benchmark has led to some wildly unpopular choices through the years, including Adolph Hitler (1938), Josef Stalin (1939, 1942), Ayatullah Khomeini (1979); some creative choices: The American Solider (1950); Middle Americans (1969), the Computer (1982); and clear newsmakers: Lech Walesa (1981), Pope John Paul II (1994), Clinton/Starr (1998), and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (2001).
In an effort to gauge popular sentiment, Time held its annual panel discussion on November 9th, which included participants: Chris DeWolfe, creator of MySpace, who chose Al Gore, NBC's Brian Williams selected``Mother Earth’’, columnist Liz Smith put her weight behind ``You the People’’, last year’s recipient, and Former Sen. and Governor of Virginia, George Allen, went with Gen. David Petraeus and the American troops
Feeling not enough voices were heard, The Morning Delivery held its own luncheon, actually, it was a brown bag gathering in front of our computers (that's all our budget would allow during these trying times), and asked participants if the ball were in their court, who would be their Time Magazine Person of the Year?
Here are a few responses:
``Tony Blair’’:
-Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York
``President of Iran. Don't ask me to look up the spelling of his name.’’
-Peter Vecsey, sports columnist for the New York Post
``Ahmadinijan-- in the tradition of Hitler’’,
-Alan M. Dershowitz, Professor of Law at Harvard University
``Vladimir Putin''
-Sir Peter Stothard, Editor of the Times Literary Supplement
``Maybe Barack Obama, if he rises to the level of honest leadership that I hope for and can gain on HRC [Human Rights Campaign] in the process.’’
-Stuart Taylor, senior writer and columnist for the National Journal magazine
`` [General David H.] Petraeus gets my vote. Toughest job. Significant success.''
The standard used in making their selection, will be based on the same guiding principle it has used since Charles Lindbergh was chosen as the magazine’s first recipient in 1927; which is:`` the person who influenced the world the most in the past year, for good or for ill’’, according to Betsy Burton, Public Relations Director at Time Magazine.
This benchmark has led to some wildly unpopular choices through the years, including Adolph Hitler (1938), Josef Stalin (1939, 1942), Ayatullah Khomeini (1979); some creative choices: The American Solider (1950); Middle Americans (1969), the Computer (1982); and clear newsmakers: Lech Walesa (1981), Pope John Paul II (1994), Clinton/Starr (1998), and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (2001).
In an effort to gauge popular sentiment, Time held its annual panel discussion on November 9th, which included participants: Chris DeWolfe, creator of MySpace, who chose Al Gore, NBC's Brian Williams selected``Mother Earth’’, columnist Liz Smith put her weight behind ``You the People’’, last year’s recipient, and Former Sen. and Governor of Virginia, George Allen, went with Gen. David Petraeus and the American troops
Feeling not enough voices were heard, The Morning Delivery held its own luncheon, actually, it was a brown bag gathering in front of our computers (that's all our budget would allow during these trying times), and asked participants if the ball were in their court, who would be their Time Magazine Person of the Year?
Here are a few responses:
``Tony Blair’’:
-Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York
``President of Iran. Don't ask me to look up the spelling of his name.’’
-Peter Vecsey, sports columnist for the New York Post
``Ahmadinijan-- in the tradition of Hitler’’,
-Alan M. Dershowitz, Professor of Law at Harvard University
``Vladimir Putin''
-Sir Peter Stothard, Editor of the Times Literary Supplement
``Maybe Barack Obama, if he rises to the level of honest leadership that I hope for and can gain on HRC [Human Rights Campaign] in the process.’’
-Stuart Taylor, senior writer and columnist for the National Journal magazine
`` [General David H.] Petraeus gets my vote. Toughest job. Significant success.''
-Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard University
``I'd seriously consider Drew Gilpin Faust, the first female president of Harvard (more of a milestone than the possible first female president of the United States)’’
-Eric Foner, Professor of History at Columbia University
``Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’’:
-Herbert Sloan, Professor of History at Barnard College
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Just for the record, The Morning Delivery’s editorial board would select the founders of Google: Larry Page and Sergey Brin as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
They way these pioneers have transformed the Internet in such a short period of time ``for good or ill’’ has our unanimous vote.
-Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net
``I'd seriously consider Drew Gilpin Faust, the first female president of Harvard (more of a milestone than the possible first female president of the United States)’’
-Eric Foner, Professor of History at Columbia University
``Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’’:
-Herbert Sloan, Professor of History at Barnard College
**
Just for the record, The Morning Delivery’s editorial board would select the founders of Google: Larry Page and Sergey Brin as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
They way these pioneers have transformed the Internet in such a short period of time ``for good or ill’’ has our unanimous vote.
-Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net
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