Time Magazine Contemplates "The Chinese Worker" as Person of the Year

[Vinnie From Indy]

I guess the folks at Time know where their bread will get buttered in the next decades. I find it fascinatinig that the right wing in America has so quickly and completely abandoned the goddless, communist enemy for the Al Queda bogeyman. It would have been unthinkable and political suicide for any politician or US publication a few years ago to celebrate the Chinese worker. Now, there is not even a whimper of protest about SELLING American automobile companies to Chinese interests.

I am sure the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs to outsourcing will greatly appreciate Time's celebration of the Chinese worker. You can bet that there will be NO mention of the conditions of these workers in the Time Magazine Person of the Year issue.

[chimpymustgo]

1. OMG - they cannot go there. That would reveal not just the conditions of these workers

but of OURS (jobless). And how our economy is resting on their backs.

[marshall]

5. Does the "Chinese worker" even read Time magazine?

I wouldn't think the magazine is even allowed in that tightly controlled country.

[Blue_Tires]

2. the "goddless, communist enemy" meme is still alive and well whenever Cuba trade is discussed

and as it has obviously been mentioned countless times, the man of the year HAS to be Lula...

[pampango]

3. Not sure where that story came from. TIME has 10 "candidates". The Chinese worker isn't

one of them.

"Your 2009 Candidates

1. Angela Merkel
2. Barack Obama
3. Ben Bernanke
4. Iran Protesters
5. Olympia Snowe
6. Somali Pirates
7. Stanley McChrystal
8. Steve Jobs
9. Timothy Geithner
10. Usain Bolt"

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1939691,00.html

TIME has an online poll for this. I'm not sure what influence the poll has on their eventual choice. So far "Iran Protesters" is way out in front with 570,000 votes; second is Obama with 111,000 votes. Bernanke and Geither are currently next-to-last and last.

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Somebody better tell the guy from Time Magazine on Good Morning America

He just said that the Chinese Worker WAS a candidate and the group of idiot hosts sat there and discussed this very point.

[marshall]

6. The online poll may be completely separate from the editors' list

They often have their own list and an online list for voting. I recall not long ago they had a vote online and a Korean singer named Rain who most Americans had never even heard of was the top vote getter. But then it turned out to be just online, and the one published in the magazine was whoever the magazine picked.

[pampango]

7. I didn't know that. I wonder why they would have one list for an online poll and a different one

for the editors to choose from. I'm sure their marketing department sees some commercial advantage to that kind of arrangement. :)