Life I Told YOU So
posted by on December 16 at 19:43 PM
Late last month I predicted that YouTube (or blogs) would nab Time’s Person of the Year Honors—as a symbol of the radical shift in mass media. Here’s what I wrote:
2006 has been a Year-Zero, history-altering kind of year: The GOP implosion; the on-line upheaval that’s undoing traditional media; and the tragic War in Iraq… I nominate Google/YouTube as 2006’s standard-bearer… I think the Blogosphere—based on its role in upending the traditional media—should also be a candidate for the 2006 title.
I was damn close. The AP reported on Time’s selection today, writing: ” The winners this year were anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web.”
Indeed, putting a personal computer screen on its cover Time selected YOU as the Person of the Year.
And Drudge sums up the choice this way:
**EXCLUSIVE** 7:38 PM ET… IT’S YOU! YOU were named TIME magazine ‘Person of the Year’ Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as ‘blogs’, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace…
In my November Slog, I compared 2006 to years like 1966—watershed, jump-cut kind of years when accumulating forces explode to redefine culture. Interestingly, the AP report on Time’s selection, makes a nod to ‘66:
It was not the first time the magazine went away from naming an actual person for its “Person of the Year.” In 1966, the 25-and-under generation was cited…
La-di-da. Anyway, today’s the 233rd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Tonight, Boston Harbor is a tea pot!
Hey, *I* started a blog today! I'd like to thank Jebus for this immense honor...shout out to Frank Mankiewicz...
...last but not least my fact checkin 'cuz...you da man now, dawg!
That's sooo stuuupid. I'm getting weary of Time's contorted manifestations of "Person of the Year."
I feel you. I think it should still be Man Of The Year.
I am surprised there was no award to the media for their nonstop fixation on celebrity skanks like Paris Hilton.
Don't you mean "I TOLD You So"?
Josh, you were totally right. But, "You" as the person of the year? That's stupid, and a cop out.
Actually, I'm pretty much over these web sites that force their users to generate content.
Oh wait...
Well, FINALLY! Now that gag "Time Magazine Person Of The Year" novelty mirror I bought back in '98 is accurate!
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