![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that the heyday of newsmagazines has receded, the spectrum of people who have ever held a physical copy of Time in their hands has shriveled. Time was once a scrappy upstart, but for decades it was a very serious must-read magazine. Time’s annual “person of the year” designation has always been a gimmick, going all the way back to Charles Lindbergh in 1927. That was when Time looked at the rise of open-publishing platforms like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook, and decided the most influential person was the collective “you.” It was cheesy, trite, and had the exact effect Time wanted: Everybody talked about it. If you had to pick the year Time magazine’s “person of the year” jumped the shark, you’d probably start with 2006.
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