RAVE: This TIME They Got It Right

Time Magazine is not what it used to be. Once it was a news-breaking, world-renowned news magazine that often broke and set the tone of international news. Now it is nothing more than bitsy, crass reporting, yet another reflection of the slow, excruciating demise of meaningful journalism. Time became purveyor of the superficial, soundbite drivel that masquerades as journalism today.

The lowest common denominator pandered to yet again in an era of dumbed down, inattentive and commercial banality.

And very often Time would get their Man or Person of the Year very, very wrong. Rudy Giuliani or Mark Zuckerberg, anyone? Uh huh…

However, this year Time Magazine got it very, very right.

Their Person of the Year for 2011 was not a famous man or woman or any of the other, usual and ‘famous’ suspects. Instead, it was the man, the woman, the very person that came to epitomise 2011, and deserve all the kudos. Their Person of the Year was the very embodiment of an exciting, historic and, yes, watershed year – it was The Protester.

The Protester in Tunis, Cairo, Sana’a, Bahrain, Homs, Amman, Benghazi, Athens, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Paris, Minsk, New York, Oakland, Portland, Los Angeles, Rome, and everywhere else this year was the collective awakening of those ordinary people sick to death of the corruption, the greed, the power elites that are robbing our very future and our very humanity.

The Protester is everyone of us who has had enough and knows that the system, wherever and whatever that ‘system’ might be, is rotten to the very core.

Well done, Time Magazine. At least this time you got it right.