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Originally Posted by scotty2hotty
I thought Time has stated multiple, well, times that the POTY does not equal ‘best’. It is the person who was ‘in the news the most’ ...or most influential ...or most noteworthy.
It’s not supposed to be an MVP award.
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Yeah, this happens literally every December. People think it's some kind of award or honour, but it's actually the editorial board of
Time deciding who (or what) was the most influential newsmaker of the year. The actual criteria to determine PotY, as defined by Time, is as follows:
"a person, a group, an idea, or an object that for better or for worse has done the most to influence the events of the year."
Based on that, it probably should have been the coronavirus itself on the cover, but the medical professionals responding to the crisis are a decent proxy for the story that dominated 2020. It still annoys me that Time's editors were too cowardly to make Osama bin Laden Person of the year in 2001. By their own selection criteria, nobody influenced the events of that year more than he did.