What do you think of Time’s willingness to recognize significant groups and movements? Does Time’s acknowledgment help those groups accomplish their goals, or is it simply symbolic? What do you think of this criteria? What would your criteria be? Do you think that Time should select, and therefore draw attention to, someone who has made a positive difference in the world?Īmong this year’s finalists are two groups: frontline health care workers and the racial justice movement. Time noted that it chooses “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill,” not necessarily whoever is most popular. Harris? What are the arguments against this choice? What message do you think the pick sends? Imagine that you are in the meeting to determine who will be person of the year. Trump - Time’s other finalists - should have been chosen instead? Do you wish that any other people or groups had been included in Time’s final crop? Fauci and frontline health care workers, the racial justice movement or Mr.
What person or group of people would you choose as person of the year for 2020? Why? Do you think that Dr. Students, read the entire article, then tell us: The previous year, Time recognized “ the silence breakers,” a group of women who catalyzed the Me Too movement when they stepped forward to accuse powerful men of sexual harassment and assault. The journalists included the staff of The Capital Gazette newspapers in Maryland, where five people were shot dead in June 2018. The magazine said it wanted to underscore the threats faced by independent journalists at a time of so much disinformation. In 2018, the magazine selected a group of journalists that included the murdered Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi as its person of the year. Thunberg, who sailed across the Atlantic in an emissions-free yacht before her speech last year at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, rankled Mr. Trump, the Ukraine whistle-blower and the Hong Kong protesters. Last year, Time named the young climate activist Greta Thunberg its person of the year, choosing her over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mr.
Vigdor also lists other recent choices for person of the year: Its choice reflects “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill,” the magazine said in 2014. Time has noted that its selection process is not a popularity contest, however. But some of the newsmakers chosen turned out to be infamous Time selected Adolf Hitler in 1938 and Joseph Stalin in 1939, a distinction that was given to Stalin again in 1942. The magazine, which began publishing in 1923, has bestowed the distinction on presidents, peacemakers, astronauts, popes and Queen Elizabeth II, on American women and the endangered earth. Lindbergh its first man of the year, as the honor was then called. The tradition goes back to 1927, when Time named the aviator Charles A. Fauci), the racial justice movement and President Trump for the distinction. They edged out frontline health care workers (along with the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert, Dr. senator from California who became the first Black woman and the first Indian-American elected to the vice presidency, will appear side by side in a portrait on the magazine’s cover on Dec. Biden, 78, the former vice president under President Barack Obama, and Ms. Biden during the campaign, revealed the magazine’s choice at the end of an hourlong television special on NBC. Bruce Springsteen, who narrated a television ad for Mr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as its persons of the year, citing the weight of the pandemic and racial injustice that will be shouldered by the history-making Democratic ticket. Time magazine on Thursday named President-elect Joseph R. In “ Biden and Harris Are Time’s Persons of the Year for 2020,” Neil Vigdor writes about Time magazine’s selection: Fauci, the racial justice movement and President Trump? Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as its persons of the year? Would you have made a different selection from the list of finalists, which included frontline health care workers along with Dr. What person or group of people do you think best represents 2020?ĭo you agree with Time magazine’s selection of President-elect Joseph R.
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