Really, TIME? Magazine’s ‘Person Of The Year’ Raises A Few Eyebrows

TIME magazine has announced the ‘2018 Person of the Year,’ and we have thoughts:

JUST IN: Time magazine chooses Khashoggi and other journalists as 2018 ‘Person of the Year’ https://t.co/OMDsyh5R27

— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 11, 2018

“Journalists”

The Guardians—Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo—are TIME’s Person of the Year 2018 #TIMEPOY https://t.co/HvoEaW5oUi pic.twitter.com/9Mr0wBTmvj

— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2018

The “GUARDIANS,” to be specific.

AKA TIME Magazine basically gave this award to themselves?

With a record number of reporters behind bars around the planet — the Committee to Protect Journalists documented 262 cases in 2017— an avalanche of misinformation on social media and government officials from the United States to the Philippines dismissing critical, real reporting as “fake news,” Time is spotlighting a handful of journalists who have one thing in common: They were targeted for their work.

Translation: we did this to spite Trump. The (surviving) “winners” must be so honored to know they’re just a “gotcha” against the President of the United States.

*Insert Jim Acosta screaming “We are NOT Fake News!” here*

No one’s really all that impressed:

Oh brother. Journalists call journalists Persons of the Year. And I have an annoucement too: I declare that I am the Person of the Year. Thank you for this honor, Andy.

— Andy Martin (@Dollarlogic) December 11, 2018

This just in: “Journalists chose journalists for meaningless annual pseudo-event”

— SMOD C137 (@PaulWDrake) December 11, 2018

You got to be kidding me. #ToneDefPress

— NateBrown (@stevekerrfan) December 11, 2018

*yawn*

— Jackhole_Yinzer (@Anthony_Stavish) December 11, 2018