TIME Announces 2016 Person of the Year Shortlist

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://time.com/4589502/person-of-the-year-2016-shortlist/

TIME Announces 2016 Person of the Year Shortlist


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Meet the 11 finalists

The shortlist of candidates for the 2016 Person of the Year—TIME’s annual selection of the person who most influenced the news, for better or for worse—was revealed Monday morning on NBC’s Today.

In alphabetical order, the 11 candidates chosen by TIME magazine’s editors are:

Simone Biles

Making her Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, the talented 19-year-old gymnast earned four gold medals and one bronze, leading her “Final Five” team to victory and affirming her status as the best in the world.

Hillary Clinton

The former First Lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State became the first woman to receive the U.S. presidential nomination of a major political party, going on to lose the election but win the popular vote—the culmination of a hard-fought, divisive presidential race.

CRISPR Scientists

These scientists have developed a groundbreaking new technology that can edit DNA, a technique that has the potential to transform science and the human experience, as it could be used to find and remove mutations responsible for incurable diseases.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

After an attempted military coup failed in July, the Turkish president has tightened control over the country, arresting political opponents, firing thousands of state employees and shutting down news organizations.

Nigel Farage

As head of the U.K. Independence Party, Farage was a face of the successful campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, positioning the referendum as the start of a global populist wave against the political establishment.

The Flint Whistleblowers

Local residents, along with civil-engineering professor Marc Edwards and local pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, blew the whistle on the lead-poisoned water in Flint, Mich., drawing national attention to an environmental crisis that still has yet to be fully resolved.

Beyoncé Knowles

With a headline-worthy Super Bowl halftime performance, a world tour and a powerful second visual album, Lemonade, Beyoncé continued to surprise and provoke a global audience, using her platform to speak out about racial injustice, police violence and feminism.

Narendra Modi

At the head of a powerful government, the Indian Prime Minister has guided his country’s economy into position as the “emerging-market world’s most positive story.” Late in the year, however, he also stoked concern when he unexpectedly banned 500- and 1,000-rupee bills—a move that aimed to curb untaxed wealth but now threatens to slow the country’s economic growth.

Vladimir Putin

The Russian president made headlines this year with his country’s intervention in Syria and evidence showing that Russian operatives were responsible for the hack of Democratic National Committee servers.

Donald Trump

After campaigning as an anti-establishment, populist candidate, Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States—a stunning end to a presidential bid that repeatedly broke with political precedent.

Mark Zuckerberg

In the year that Facebook surpassed the 1 billion mobile daily users mark, the social-media titan has an unprecedented global reach. The CEO has also faced pressure to take responsibility for the site’s role in spreading fake or misleading news, amid criticism that those stories influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.

The 2016 Person of the Year will be unveiled on Today on Wednesday morning, when the news will also be shared on Time.com.

I voted in early stages so not sure how it is decided now.

It's got to be Nigel. Easy.

wbu

[dbgtz]

Pretty sure at least half of those nominations exist simply as some kind of click bait.

[scottish]

Pretty sure at least half of those nominations exist simply as some kind of click bait.

Yeah I just assumed most of these entries were trolling..

Trump.. Farage.. Putin..

[-:Undertaker:-]

Yeah I just assumed most of these entries were trolling..

Trump.. Farage.. Putin..

Isn't that just you continuing to make the false assumption that everybody agrees with your view?

Trolling would surely be Clinton, Cameron and Alex Salmond. All of them/their causes rejected in the past couple of years.

[David]

Isn't that just you continuing to make the false assumption that everybody agrees with your view?

same as you thinking nigel farage is going to get it?

[-:Undertaker:-]

same as you thinking nigel farage is going to get it?

what

we're talking about nominations hun

[Cerys]

Putin bae < 3


I spose you don't have to be good and beneficial to win person of the year so

[David]

what

we're talking about nominations hun

no we're talking about false assumptions, hun

[-:Undertaker:-]

no we're talking about false assumptions, hun

are you for real. like can't you follow the context of a convo

we're talking about who's nominated and it seems people like scott and yourself seem to have a hard time understanding that whilst you may not like trump, farage, putin or modi whatever - an awful lot of people do like them or that they've had a big impact on the world in 2016 for good or bad, so simply saying "lols trolling" is pretty close-minded. that's why they're on the list sweetie.

IE a lot of people like Putin - myself included - because of his actions in Syria. you can disagree but at least understand there's broad and dissenting opinion from what you read on the social media bubble and on the BBC rolling stock at the bottom of the screen.

nothing to do with assuming the eventual winner because i don't have a fucking clue who'll win

[David]

who said i didn't like trump or putin

sounds like an assumption x

[-:Undertaker:-]

who said i didn't like trump or putin

sounds like an assumption x

it's not about whether you like them i could care less. or whether I like them

it's about the bubble mentality that anything that could possibly differ from the liberal consensus must be click-bait or trolling. it's like with the EU referendum or the US election when scott confidently dismissed the other side like lols easy win and u lose and look what happened. #arrogance

MAYBE just a lot of people like them and/or they've made a big difference on the world in 2016. who'd of thunk it

[lemons]

Simone Biles to win!

[FlyingJesus]

What a bloody awful list. An acrobat, a presidential loser, ERDOGAN OF ALL PEOPLE, some bloke who flipflops on his own resignation every week, Beyoncé who hasn't been relevant outside of tumblr since like 2008, Putin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d7Llx4rm8), and monsieur pussygrabber. At least they acknowledge that the "award" is only about who's influenced the news the most rather than who's made a good contribution to the world.

[Misawa]

Time Magazine decides who wins. The online vote has - and never has had - any influence, i.e. in the past some individuals who have won the online vote by over 50% were never even in the group of names the editors ultimately chose from.

It's just a pointless accolade. I expect they will pick Clinton. The insect known as Farage doesn't have a hope in hell and no one in America knows - or cares - who he is. They may give Trump the win for shock value but it'd likely backfire and it won't look good in retrospect when they give it to a President who won't last a full term.

[abc]

Narendra Modi without a doubt. No politician has the courage to do what he just did in India to try and reduce corruption.

Nigel Farage is a joke. The moron should not even make the shortlist.

[Empired]

I hope I win I've tried rly hard to be a person this year

[ihatehash]

For me Person of the Year should be someone who appeals to the masses, aka someone who has acted in the best interest of the majority this is why I find it difficult to see why some divisive like Trump or Clinton should be Person of the Year. I do wonder if the massive talking points of Brexit/US Election have clouded the nominations and perhaps it would have been nice to have someone who had an impact on a smaller scale ie. Ben Ryan.
However out the options I would go with Trump. Obviously controversial but he has served and empowered a large section of people who have felt disenfranchised over the last decade or so. Plus the memes have been on point this year.

[AgnesIO]

Narendra Modi without a doubt. No politician has the courage to do what he just did in India to try and reduce corruption.

Nigel Farage is a joke. The moron should not even make the shortlist.


What, you mean letting his close ministers know about the plan before announcing it? Demonetisation has so far screwed over hundreds of millions of normal Indians, and done little to hit the corrupt.

Of course, short term pain may be worthwhile if it helps in the long term... but I don't think it will.

[abc]

What, you mean letting his close ministers know about the plan before announcing it? Demonetisation has so far screwed over hundreds of millions of normal Indians, and done little to hit the corrupt.

Of course, short term pain may be worthwhile if it helps in the long term... but I don't think it will.

I am not sure where you are getting your information from... most likely the selective biased papers which have been against Modi before he was even PM? Hardly any ministers knew of his plan, why do you think they are so heavily against it right now? Have you seen what the Minister in Kolkatta is trying to do because she did not know about this plan before and now cannot figure out what to do with her millions of black money? Do not accuse Modi of letting his close ministers know without knowing the facts.

Demonetisation has primarily screwed the rich. The working class have barely been affected due to the deposit limit. The deposit limit has been increased, new rules have been introduced to legalise the black money by paying a penalty.

Modi ran his election campaign primarily on ending corruption, and he is doing so. Not just within the government but within the people too. Now people are blaming him for doing something they elected him to do? If you elect someone to end corruption then don't expect him to end corruption only in government, expect the same rule for the normal people.

The country has already benefited significantly in this short period of time due to demonetisation.

What he has done, no leader has the courage or the support to do.

[xxMATTGxx]

BBC reporting that Trump has won it lol

[ihatehash]

Lol yep. Trump won.
http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump-choice/

[FlyingJesus]

Makes sense since it's just about who's been in the news the most really but still a sad state of affairs that he's the one who made the headlines so often :P

[-:Undertaker:-]

Well done The Donald.

Certainly deserved (I'd of place him 2nd) but still think Farage's victory was historically more significant.

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Full cover -

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[AgnesIO]

Have you seen what the Minister in Kolkatta ... Do not accuse Modi of letting his close ministers know



OK.