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Time Magazine’s selection of “You/People Who Use the Internet” as the 2006 Person of the Year has sharply revived the tradition of sniping and second-guessing that surrounds the annual tradition. St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Kevin Horrigan lampooned the selection in a wonderful Sunday column. Cranky syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg awarded Time his own “jellyfish of the year” award. And a newspaper editorialist in San Antonio simply retorted: Please.
Awarded to the man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year" is not – the magazine’s editors annually caution us -- a reward or a prize. It acknowledges, not the year’s most honorable subject, but the biggest difference-maker. The magazine’s past selections have included Charles Lindbergh, Adolph Hitler, Gandhi, FDR, The American Fighting Man, Queen Elizabeth II, Bill Clinton, Bono, Rudy Giuliani, and The Computer.
Well used to controversy with its Mini-Polls, MayorSlay.com has decided to offer its readers a special opportunity to vote – and carp – on our own version of a newsmaker. Help us name the 2006 St. Louis Person of the Year from this list of influential persons, groups, ideas, trends, and places.
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