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Time's "Person(s) of the Year": "The Guardians" (Journalists)
And it's appropriate.
As I recall, TIME's definition of "Person of the Year", is to cite who had had the greatest effect (for good or bad) on the headlines. Not on humanity, or world affairs, or etc.
That usually winds up being someone (or more than one) who has great effect on world affairs etc.
But this year, those who have had the greatest effect on headlines, are indeed the Journalists. In large part by twisting the news, faking it, putting bizarre and inaccurate descriptions of it, strategically leaving out important parts of it etc. And of course, writing the headlines themselves, which often have a very different slant than the story that follows.
The particular group Time picked out, was journalists who had been imprisoned or killed while doing journalism. That being a much smaller group that "Journalists as a whole", they actually didn't have nearly as big an effect on the headlines, as "All Journalists". So while the imprisoned/killed journalists certainly deserve great recognition, they don't deserve the TIME title. "All Journalists" do.
OTOH, if you're looking for the person who had the greatest impact on the headlines ASIDE from those who actually write those headlines, it is unquestionably President Donald Trump. Because virtually every headline written by most journalists in the last year, has been a long scream of rage, frustration, and hate against Donald J. Trump. He has by far affected far more headlines (for better or worse, as TIME says) than the next several contenders combined.
Journalists are our last line defense against a con man and his crime family intent on taking the U.S. down. They absolutely deserve the recognition.
They certainly are, and they do indeed deserve the recognition.
Too bad they failed so profoundly in this task from 2009-2015, and then twisted their task into unrecognizable junk from 2016-on.
However, I believe that, while the particular ones who were imprisoned or killed certainly deserved recognition (and got it, huge), they were not the ones who fulfilled Time's definition of doing THE MOST to affect the headlines. They might come in 3rd or 4th.
Picking journalists as a whole, deserves the title. For the reasons I gave.
Illustration of the propaganda puked out by what is our "media" today. Thank you for making the OP's point.
Actually, you made mine. Real journalists are needed to counteract the "propaganda puked out" by this administration. Imagine if we only had pretend news like Fox to rely on. I shudder at the thought.
Kudos to our independent journalists. They are the enemy of criminals like the current occupant of the White House, who much prefer secrecy and NDAs to keep the truth from seeing the light of day.
Actually, you made mine. Real journalists are needed to counteract the "propaganda puked out" by this administration. Imagine if we only had pretend news like Fox to rely on. I shudder at the thought.
Kudos to our independent journalists. They are the enemy of criminals like the current occupant of the White House, who much prefer secrecy and NDAs to keep the truth from seeing the light of day.
Dead on. Couldn't have stated this any better.
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Time's "Person(s) of the Year": "The Guardians" (Journalists)
