Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States newsmagazine Time that features and profiles a person, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or for worse has done the most to influence the events of the year."This is the definition of person of the year by Wikipedia. The Man of the Year has two crucial meaning.
First, he or she has to be famous (or notorious) person.
Second, he or she has to give an impact to whole society.
From 1927 to 2010, there were many people who selected as the Man of the Year, and their common features were like this. However, sometimes, there were some distinctive Man of the Year. Usually, Man of the year is awarded to person or group. However, in 2006 the Man of the Year was 'you'. 'You' represents the individual content creator on the World Wide Web especially Youtube. (through a reflective surface on the magazine cover)
Like this, Time magazine efforts to cover the social issues to their surface with impact impression. So it seems Time can be the tool that shows us what the real issue is.///
However, Time magazine does not totally free from political, and economical issue. First of all, politically, they cannot list someone who has anti-social, or anti-nation traits. Secondly, when Time magazine thinks about the impact that person or group gives, they usually consider the economic power that person or group gives.
Above two aspects explains why Assange failed to be a person of the year. He was not the polite citizen for United States, and his work was not for earning.
When we compare the Assange and Zukerberg, we cannot definitely say that Zukerberg are greater than Assange. This is the weak point of Time. How can magazine, (just a magazine) can decide who is the most important person.
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