Time Magazine's 2006 Person Of The Year: You?

That Time Magazine would choose to select the caption "You" as person of the year is probably the most ill-conceived idea since the Iraq war. With so many more pressing topics to choose from Time seem to have lost the inventiveness that usually surrounds the selection of the person, or issue that most influenced the news during the year. A more worthy issue of the year candidate, I would argue, was the unfortunate genocide the world stood by and witnessed in Darfur. In the aftermath of what happened in Nazi Germany, and in Cambodia, and in Rawanda recently, the world vowed to never let it (large-scale genocide) happen again. However, this year alone some half million people were wiped off the face of the map in Darfur. There has been much press coverage and even commercials in prime time slots highlighting the issue. Even George Bush addressed the issue at length in a speech to the UN. Therefore, to say the issue didn't dominate the news would be disingenuous. So considering the issue was a big news story in 2006, and that the subject matter carries as much weight, it certainly deserved more consideration from the folks at Time.