TIME's Editor-in-Chief explains why Donald Trump was chosen as the 2024 Person of the Year.
  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
    7·
    21 hours ago

    Is the answer more complicated than “magazines are a dead medium and our entire annual revenue comes from our person of the year issue”, coupled with “when we did this eight years ago that issue sold gangbusters”?

  • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    FTA:

    the individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months.

    It is not an honor, at least not necessarily. Adolph Hitler infamously held the same title, for the reasons he’s known for today.

    • Hal-5700X
      2·
      11 hours ago

      It is not an honor, at least not necessarily

      Will Taylor Swift was Time’s Person of the Year last year.

  • StinkyOnions@lemmy.world
    71·
    22 hours ago

    So this is where we are now? Awarding him for trying to overthrow the government? I hate this country.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    5·
    21 hours ago

    Okay, but what kind of person of the year?

    Orangest?

    Greediest?

    Manipulative?

    Feel free to add to this list…

    • xmunk
      1·
      20 hours ago

      The Adjuster comes for us all, eventually.

  • xmunk
    33·
    20 hours ago

    Fuck TIME and fuck them giving him even more oxygen for no good reason.