TIME’s 2014 Person Of The Year: Ebola Fighters
Time magazine has selected the Ebola fighters, who have fought to contain the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, as its 2014 Person of the Year.
The title, according to the magazine, goes to an individual or group who, for better or worse, has had the biggest impact on the world and the news over the course of the previous year.
“It’s an incredible honor,” Dr. Kent Brantly, medical missions advisor for Samaritan’s Purse and the first American to be affected with the virus, said Wednesday on TODAY of the shared title.
“Those who paid the highest price for their service are themselves West Africans. It’s an honor for me to be considered as a part of that group.”
In a unique touch, TIME will run an edition with no less than five different covers.
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* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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rg9rts December 10th, 2014 at 08:49
Putin was in the running too … one thing for sure the gopee would never endorse that selection.
Larry Schmitt December 10th, 2014 at 09:00
But who still reads Time? Does this even matter anymore?
rg9rts December 10th, 2014 at 09:05
The honchos here did and fretted about the selection…its not about the good guy…hell even Stalin was man of the year…its who influences the world the most
neworleans878 December 10th, 2014 at 11:26
Stalin won twice…1939 and 1943. Hitler won once…1938.
“…its who influences the world the most”
That’s why I lost respect for this title in 2001 when they caved to pressure and didn’t name bin Laden as person of the year. It’s not necessarily an honor…
rg9rts December 10th, 2014 at 09:49
Putin was in the running too … one thing for sure the gopee would never endorse that selection.
Larry Schmitt December 10th, 2014 at 10:00
But who still reads Time? Does this even matter anymore?
rg9rts December 10th, 2014 at 10:05
The honchos here did and fretted about the selection…its not about the good guy…hell even Stalin was man of the year…its who influences the world the most
nola878 December 10th, 2014 at 12:26
Stalin won twice…1939 and 1943. Hitler won once…1938.
“…its who influences the world the most”
That’s why I lost respect for this title in 2001 when they caved to pressure and didn’t name bin Laden as person of the year. It’s not necessarily an honor…
neworleans878 December 10th, 2014 at 11:28
My second choice behind the protesters…
Could have been much, much worse…could have been Taylor Swift. God bless her and her songs about heartbreak, but I would have been nauseous if she had won.
nola878 December 10th, 2014 at 12:28
My second choice behind the protesters…
Could have been much, much worse…could have been Taylor Swift. God bless her and her songs about heartbreak, but I would have been nauseous if she had won.