Was Mark Zuckerberg the best choice for Time Magazine's 2010 person of the year?
Do you think Mark deserved to win the prestigious title, or should it have been someone more deserving to grace the cover?
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M$"Dr. Sanjay Gupta, in Haiti for CNN to cover the earthquake aftermath, was contacted by officials from the U.S.S. Carl Vinson early Monday and asked to provide his neurosurgical skills to aid a 12-year-old girl with a head injury who’d been evacuated to the ship. The Vinson has a fully equipped operating room and a general surgeon, but no neurosurgeon. The ship’s surgeon had seen reports that Gupta was in Haiti and reached out to CNN to request his services."
During looting that broke out, Anderson Cooper got an injured child out of the middle of a fight:
"Chaos in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti has repeatedly resulted in reporters on the ground getting emotionally and physically involved in helping the desperate. This time it is Anderson Cooper, who was there with the CNN crew covering the utter pandemonium in the streets, where innocent people were being injured, including one boy who was dragged and later carried to safety by Cooper."
I remember seeing the video--the kid was really bloody. Watch it at the second source if you want to.
These guys are both Persons of the Year.
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I don't watch TV, and CNN is only one of many channels. Also, by your logic they have already received it.
Do you mean a Schnitzelbank restaurant? There is one in the midwest that has been around for generations, there are others by that name in Europe. I collect schnitzelbank steins, recordings, and other items.
Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta are hardly obscure. Anyone who has ever passed by CNN--likely even casually--has seen one of them on TV. And you'll note the middle picture--they7 were IN HAITI, EVERY DAY, on televisions AROUND THE WORLD.
Someone who is in millions of homes every night is hardly obscure. Gupta was even considered for US Surgeon General.Watch the video on CNN.COM.
Source: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/06/dr-sanjay-guptas-decision/
Maybe if I stick them on a cable-TV industry website--a little over two years before the Haiti earthquake--the'll appear less obscure:
"(L to R: Animal Planet host and wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, and CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta )"
"(L to R: Athlete Lance Armstrong, Animal Planet host and wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, actor Matthew McConaughey and CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.)"
Source: http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2007/10/18/planet-in-peril-hits-la/
Obscure, or "out-of-the-way, little-known" they're not. Try the antonyms: "distinguished, famous, known."
Source: http://thesaurus.com/browse/obscure
And PS: I was TIME Magazine's Person of the Year in 2006.:
"Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?
The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html#ixzz18Tf13ouT
PS: Love the Schnitzelbank Stein. The place is awesome.
This "award" does not go to obscure humanitarians, no matter how benevolent they may be.
Yes, the one in Indiana. Have been there. Yum-o.
And I suppose, on a technicality, they did win it in 2006--if they picked up the magazine and looked the cover. I don't know if they did, but I know I did.
While CNN is one of hundreds of channels, that YOU don't see them doesn't make them obscure. To you, perhaps, but not to others. According to a source Wikipedia cites, "From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's.." He's Gloria Vanderbilt's son, Anderson Hays Vanderbilt Cooper, and he's a great-great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt of the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune He's received a Bronze Telly, an Emmy, a GLAAD award, another Emmy, and for the coverage I pictured above, he was recently awarded Haiti's National Order of Honour and Merit, the highest governmental honor. Not exactly obscure.
As for Sanjay Gupta, he's a doctor, reporter...and somewhat of a politician. Wikipedia quotes sources as saying , "In January 2009, it was reported that Gupta was offered the position of Surgeon General of the United States in the Obama administration. In March 2009, Gupta withdrew his name from consideration for the post. From 1997 to 1998, he served as one of fifteen White House Fellows, primarily as an advisor to Hillary Clinton."
It goes on to say this: "Additionally, Gupta publishes a column in Time Magazine...His books 'Chasing Life' and 'Cheating Death' were New York Times and national bestsellers."
No TV, no obscurity: TIME columnist and 2x NY Times Best-Selling Author.
Not many folks change the lives of hundreds of millions of people, even a little bit.
Now you could argue about which year he should have been person of the year; but, this is probably as good as any. For one thing, "On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500 million-user mark." He certainly earned being person of the year for one of the last few years as Facebook made its huge impact on society.
TIME usually picks politicians, whether or not they really deserve it. The last one like Zuckerberg was Jeffrey P. Bezos (the Amazon guy) in 1999, who also deserved the award.
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In today's day and age, they should really open up online polls to make the final determination of the winner.
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The TIME person of the year has usually been assessed by someone's career not necessarily the individual year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year
Using that exact same source: "Time's Person of the Year 2001—immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks—was New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, although the stated rules of selection, the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news, made Osama bin Laden a more likely choice. The issue that declared Giuliani the Person of the Year included an article that mentioned Time's earlier decision to elect the Ayatollah Khomeini and the 1999 rejection of Hitler as Person of the Century. The article seemed to imply that Osama bin Laden was a stronger candidate than Giuliani, as Adolf Hitler was a stronger candidate than Albert Einstein. The selections were ultimately based on what the magazine describes as who they believed had a stronger influence on history."
(Case in point: When I think of The City of New York, I think of these two guys: former mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani.)
So Zuckerberg did something this year that will have an effect on history.
They should have put that poll on facebook.
As for what he did, at a minimum he had another birthday and took a good photo for the cover of TIME.
Then I changed my mind.
I don't like Zuckerberg. He looks smarmy and fearful.
If I was a god fearing person I'd say he has a one way ticket. He looks like he sleeps with demons :)
TIME has given the cover to a few odd things in the past ( including The Computer and You ). Being ON the cover is not necessarily a 'reward'. It is, as already stated, just an indication of the news generated by the recipient, for good or ill. And I say that Zuckerberg as a person deserves this 'reward' for being 'newsworthy ill'
TIMES says
"For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year"
Indeed, Facebook is driven by this man. Facebook would not be Facebook if it wasn't for Zuckerberg, just as Apple is Steve Jobs ( I do wonder if Steve Jobs is envious or thinking wtf?? )
I can see how the man has surpassed the software. Remember the sweating interviews, remember the backtracking probes into personal data and privacy. See the source graphic for how Facebook 'privacy' has changed since 2005 and it's all because of Zuckerberg...I think that's why it's a one way ticket and I think all that news about privacy helped this result - it's not just about being connected, it's also HOW you are connected.
oh, and yes let's not forget the movie...sigh I'm sorry but there are no links added to this question concerning the movie The Social Network. But again, it's newsworthy and thus adds to the ticks in the Zuckerberg column.
Why not Julian Assange or Lady Gaga? Oh, I think they are both good choices and out of the two I'd choose Julian but I'm not the one calculating news per person per report per consequence etc that TIME do to put something on the cover of their end of year magazine.
http://www.time.com/time/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)
http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Man-Of-The-Year.htm
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/7343245.html
http://techweek.org/13841facebook-privacy-settings-via-mobile.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20006220-38.html
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The Question is worth $5 and counting. Do you think this is enough information for a question of that value?
Why is it not a good choice?
Why do you prefer Facebook as a cover?
Have they ever chosen an inanimate object over a person?
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and singer Lady Gaga were also in the running for this year's award - why would you prefer Julian to Zuckerberg?
Answering these might help you get BA :)
2010 = Mark Zuckerberg
...Even a clock is right twice a day...
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Why do you think that Jeff Bezos deserved it and Mark Zuckerberg didn't. They are the most similar folks on the list. And, you might want to take another look at that list, a lot of the folks on it didn't do much. Quite a few of them were villains.