Time magazine's cop-out of the year
Rather than dis the corrupt, incompetent, crooked, slimy, Constitution/Bill of Rights/country-and-world-destroying rethug party, Time has named "You" as their Person of the Year "for the growth and influence of user-generated content on the internet."
"It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter," Time magazine's Lev Grossman said.From the article:
[L]ook at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.And it's about dirty hippie bloggers, too. I guess I'm OK with that.
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