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Edited on Mon Dec-20-04 09:28 AM by Carl Brennan
Times Man of The Year. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11739761%255E13780,00.html......The winner must be "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse," he said.
US aviator Charles Lindbergh was Time's first Man of the Year in 1927. Some selections have been notoriously unpopular, such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939 and 1942, and Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979.
This year the magazine named the conservative Power Line as its first Blog of the Year. Mr Kelly said blogs or web logs - websites that often mix news, gossip and opinion - are "here to stay"....... |
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