Times Magazine does it Again!!!

In the past, Time Magazine has picked some real 'winners' as their Man / Woman / Person / Object of the year. We've had such luminaries as Hitler, Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini...you know, important people.
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Well, justifiably that has changed over the years. It was originally a person who had made some major difference in the world. And those I noted certainly qualify on that front. But now, they've 'pushed' their choice, IMHO.
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Time's Person of the Year, 2011 is...
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THE PROTESTOR!!!

Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of history. Back then, when citizen multitudes took to the streets without weapons to declare themselves opposed, it was the very definition of news — vivid, important, often consequential. In the 1960s in America they marched for civil rights and against the Vietnam War; in the '70s, they rose up in Iran and Portugal; in the '80s, they spoke out against nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Europe, against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, against communist tyranny in Tiananmen Square and Eastern Europe. Protest was the natural continuation of politics by other means.

Massive and effective street protest" was a global oxymoron until — suddenly, shockingly — starting exactly a year ago, it became the defining trope of our times. And the protester once again became a maker of history.

I get it. Most of the 'journalists' in America identify with the left, they see the protesters as little journalists in training, they despise the power structure and want the world to be 'level' for everyone.
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And monkeys might fly outta my butt too!
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You want to see open and level? Send your resume to Time and tell them you're a journalist based on your two years on the college newspaper and 3 years blogging here. You won't even get an 'FO' Letter. Because THEY have power structure in their industry (like all industries) that keeps YOU out unless you meet THEIR internal standards. Plus, in journalism, the BIG story of the new decade has been the demise of newspapers.
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And those papers are dying because they aren't making money. They are cutting back, slowing down, tightening up because money is in short supply. And what are the 'protestors' protesting? They are protesting because their governments are cutting back, slowing down, tightening up because money is in short supply.
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Is it that the 'journalists' at Time don't get the similarity? Or, is it, that they get it, but they're too gutless to protest and strike at their bosses office?
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Schteveo