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Time Names Whistleblowers Persons of Year
AP
| 12/22/02
| ERIN McCLAM
Posted on 12/22/2002 3:35:21 AM PST by kattracks
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To: muawiyah
I blew the whistle on one of their sacred cows...
Sooo..., what was this sacred cow?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I would wager if you ask 1,000 random people if they know who Coleen Rowley, Cynthia Cooper and Sherron Watkins are that less than 5 would even get close.Oh, way less than 5%. I would say less than half-a-percent. But thanks to Time, the recognition factor for these ladies will skyrocket to.... less than 1%.
To: friendly
Time is intellectual toilet paper, no longer a serious magazine. You get more honest news from The Enquirer!I trust The Enquirer more than I trust Time. No kidding.
If you are waiting in your dentist's office one day and you look at the magazines laying around and, lo and behold!, you notice that Time is still being published! But right next to the Time magazine is an Enquirer.... which one are you going to pick up?
To: Lancey Howard
If you are waiting in your dentist's office one day and you look at the magazines laying around and, lo and behold!, you notice that Time is still being published! But right next to the Time magazine is an Enquirer.... which one are you going to pick up?I never touch Time Magazine: Brain fart of the printed media!
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posted on
12/22/2002 3:42:12 PM PST
by
friendly
To: kattracks
1955 Because of the success of the American economic system, the U.S. rolled through 1955 in two-toned splendor to an alltime crest of prosperity, heralded around the world. Much of this prosperity was directly attributable to the manufacture and sale of that quintessential American product, the automobile. Some 8,000,000 of them were produced and sold, and a good half of them were made and marketed by General Motors under the direction of President Harlow Herbert Curtice--the Man of the Year. Yet this production alone would not make Harlow Herbert Curtice, 62, the Man of the Year. Nor would the fact that he is president of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation--and the first president of a corporation--and the first president of a corporation to make more than $1 billion in net profits in a year.
Real profits, not funny money and demented accounting.
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posted on
12/22/2002 3:55:32 PM PST
by
bvw
To: KQQL
W and Cheney or Powell---those men have changed the face of the world in the past year.
And just watch 'em in 2003!
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posted on
12/22/2002 5:22:27 PM PST
by
MHT
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To: kattracks
The
REAL whistleblower is Bernard Goldberg of "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News"!!!
Why wasn't Goldberg on the cover of Time?!?
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posted on
12/22/2002 7:15:27 PM PST
by
Tom Pain
To: Tom Pain
Goldberg is an excellenct choice. Let's add his name to the list! Linda, Bernard...Who would make a good third person?
To: Lancey Howard
I submit if all the established newsweeklies gave up the premiums and the "professional discounts" and the forced subscriptions (i.e., for high-school and college kids who must bore themselves for their civics or political-science classes so their teachers can get a free copy and "educational aids") they'd be out of business the next week. Why should anyone read a newsweekly? To get the latest knee-jerk take on politics? To grit your teeth at press releases for the usual heavily-promoted bad entertainments? To behold writers insulting their readers' intelligence since Henry Luce and Briton Hadden devised the first backwards sentence? And yet these dinosaurs tread on, despite the Web. This is one of the great mysteries of life.
P. S. The only reason The Economist has avoided this trap is (let me clear my throat -- ahem -- now) BILL GATES READS IT (there), and the lemming-like CEOs who can afford it are therefore convinced it MUST be brain food. Too often it's just well-written conventional wisdom with an attitude.
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posted on
12/22/2002 8:10:45 PM PST
by
GeneD
To: Oldeconomybuyer
But these whistleblowers had no effect or influence. Everyone ignored them. And they didn't go public until it was too late to avoid tragedy. They were pretty lousy whistleblowers because they DIDN'T BLOW THEIR WHISTLES in time.
The TIME MAGAZINE honor is supposed to be for influential people, not for people who would have been influential if they had gone public or if anyone had listened to them.
To: hoosiermama
Who would make a good third person? Barbara Olsen would have been great next to Linda Tripp and Gary Aldrich or Bernard Goldberg , but the award is only given to the living.
There's always Temperlake and Triplett, who wrote Year of the Rat.
To: kattracks
Only selective whistleblowing acceptable.Isn't that the truth. Oh do I know...
To: kattracks
Well, we had a great laugh when we heard the news about the latest copout by Time Magazine.
President Bush strode like a collosus through these last three years, and whether fate has triumph or tragedy ahead, or both, he will dominate the history of this new era.
Just this year while continuing the war on terror he canceled the ABM treaty with hardly a peep from Russia, told the UN it would be irrelevant if it didn't deal with Iraq followed by a 15-0 approval vote in the Security Council, won control of the Senate for his party against historical odds, pushed through the greatest reorganization of the executive branch in half a century, and then ending the year by ordering smallpox vaccination for the troops while taking one himself and neatly sidestepping the Lott controversy with a stern statement of his own and the probable installment of his ally, Senator Frist as Majority Leader tomorrow.
If Time wanted a copout that would sell magazines and be read in the future, they could have gone with Team Bush, and given the credit to Powell, Rove, Rice, Cheney, but even that evidentally caused too much anguished squealing among the liberal pigs.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
To: kattracks
The magazine's editors chose Coleen Rowley, Cynthia Cooper and Sherron WatkinsOkay, but Americans have no idea who they are. This award of yours is piece of $hit, apparently.
I did not really know who they were until I read about it.
To: kattracks
I would bet the farm that this will be the all time lowest selling "person" of the year issue of this liberal rag(my apologies to rags everywhere).
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posted on
12/23/2002 5:24:39 AM PST
by
Phlap
To: kattracks
I guess it's only appropriate in a year when spying on your neighbor was seriously considered as part of the war on terror.
To: AlaskaErik
Was the leading whistleblower of the 1990s -- Linda Tripp --ever so honored? A liberal's "backstabber" is a conservative's "whistleblower," and sometimes vice versa.
To: Tom Pain
I think the whole choice is just STUPID.
Frankly I'm surprised the DC sniper was not their "person of the year." Or Saddam Hussein or Kofi Annan.
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posted on
12/23/2002 7:41:32 AM PST
by
mwl1
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12/23/2002 7:52:55 AM PST
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GeneD
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