Zheesh -- How about "None of the below":
Slim pickings indeed. Perhaps we need to start looking for inanimate objects (e.g., 1982 - The Computer; 1988 - Endangered Earth), symbolic people (1950 - American Fighting Man; 1956 - Hungarian Freedom Fighter; 2003 - The American Soldier), or groups of people (1960 - US Scientists; 1966 - 25 and Under; 1969 - The Middle Americans; 1975 - American Women; 1993 - The Peacemakers; 2002 - The Whistleblowers). The list of all previous winners is here.
Perhaps YouTube, online forums, blogs, vlogs, podcasts, and online media should be the Thing of the Year: The Shadow Media. Of course, Time would be writing about its own likely eventual demise, but it would fit.
Or readers may have better ideas.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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What? No Green Helmet Guy?
December 8, 2006 - 19:02 ET by Dave RWhat? No Green Helmet Guy?
ghg
December 8, 2006 - 23:43 ET by Tom BlumerWe should start a write-in campaign for GHG.
Better yet, start one for Jamil Hussein, that omnipresent "police spokesman" the AP has quoted in Iraq but who the Ministry of Interior and the military says doesn't exist. If he wins, he might show up to accept his award and actually prove his existence. :--> Then the MOI could arrest him for impersonating a police officer for roughly two years.
The You Tube Guys vs the Green Helmet Guys
December 9, 2006 - 03:23 ET by SportPoliticsFunny how YouTube made the list, isn't it ? The Times is aware of it's less than stellar future.
Where's Charles Johnson, whos
December 8, 2006 - 19:30 ET by KimberlyWhere's Charles Johnson, whose LGF blog blew the lid off the Reuters photo manipulation scandal? Now that's a person of the year.
Entity of the year
December 9, 2006 - 00:51 ET by nkviking75I nominate the MSM for the Entity of the Year. Never in my lifetime has the media so nakedly acted as if they are the 4th and preeminent branch of government and at the same time an adjunct of the Democrat party. They've taken it upon themselves to make foreign policy decisions by leaking classified information. They've shown little interest in making sure their middle eastern "stringers" aren't actually stringing us all along with enemy propaganda. The MSM is still far too powerful.
I second that viking! Every w
December 9, 2006 - 16:36 ET by bigtimerI second that viking! Every word you wrote!
The MSM are the enemy within we will have to fight for many more years to come...unfortunately.
"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." - Grover Cleveland
america's three biggest enemies
December 9, 2006 - 16:43 ET by misterbillamerica's three biggest enemies
The MSM, the ACLU, the Supreme Court (there is a fourth, the entire socialistic, communistic left in our country.
I'll bet my fellow NBers will come up with more!!!