Opinion: When TIME Magazine announces its 2021 Person of the Year next week, it has the chance to do something it has not done in decades: choose someone who is both undeniably influential and undeniably malevolent
When TIME Magazine announces its 2021 Person of the Year next week, it has the chance to do something it has not done in decades: choose someone who is both undeniably influential and undeniably malevolent.
But it’s been a while since TIME has chosen a figure who, by most standards, influenced the world “for worse” — specifically, 1979 for the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s supreme leader, who presided over the imprisonment of American hostages. So who offers the perfect opportunity for TIME to honor it’s “for good or ill” standard when it makes the big reveal on Dec. 8?— whose circulation is second only to and presides over the most-watched cable news network, which shapes the worldview not just of conservative viewers, but of a major political party as well.
The consequences of this journalistic malpractice are more apparent by the day. A majority of Republicans believe the election was stolen, that Biden is not the legitimate president. An unhealthy segment believes violence may be the only way to “restore” the legitimate government. Any hope that there could be genuine bipartisan cooperation in Washington has become even more remote; American democracy itself feels frighteningly fragile.
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