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19 Dec 2010 21:40

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Culture: SNL’s clever rip on Time’s “Person of the Year” pick really insightful

We missed SNL last night, but we have to say that this clip really says a lot about the Time Person of the Year situation. While making Julian Assange look as creepy as possible, SNL gets a lot of jabs in at the oddity of Time picking a boring guy who runs a company that gives away your private data vs. an endlessly fascinating dude who tries to reveal corruption. Well-played, SNL.

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15 Dec 2010 10:24

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Culture: Who did Zuckerberg beat out to become Time’s “Person of the Year”?

tea And why the hell not? The Tea Party actually got many of their candidates in office – that’s pretty huge.
hamid Karzai, the loose cannon on top of the Afghan power grid, still gives U.S. leaders many headaches.
julian We know about Julian Assange. Dude has been in the news every day for a freaking month now.
miners If you were stuck underground for like two months, you’d want an award too, right? We sure would.

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15 Dec 2010 10:09

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Culture: Time’s Person of the Year not Julian Assange, but some Mark guy

OK, so many were gunning for Julian Assange to go into this spot, but at the same time, Mark Zuckerberg is the guy who would probably deserve the honor most if Assange wasn’t in the running. Why? This seems like a pretty good argument: “In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S.” Assange hasn’t done that yet. Plus, wasn’t Assange on the cover of Time like a week or two ago? Seems like he’s already got some high media saturation. source

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16 Dec 2009 09:57

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Politics: Time’s Person of the Year: Twitter weirded out by Ben Bernanke

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16 Dec 2009 09:40

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Politics: Ben Bernanke? Time’s Person of the Year pick doesn’t impress us

How worthy is this choice? We realize why some might consider the choice of the Federal Reserve Chair just, but we argue even if you’re gonna go that route, Timothy Geithner and numerous CEOs have claim on this mantle. It’s an iffy choice at best. source

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