A non-binding online poll to help pick who will be on the cover of a dying news magazine. Notable recent winners include Vladimir Putin and, uh, "you" as well as "A Protestor".
Actually I think there's a chance they do pick Snowden, but I don't care because it's really of very little consequence. I'm sure Time cares much more about selling magazines than maintaining the political status quo.
The audience of the (dying) magazine industry doesn't come close to the audience of snowden's message. your comment kind of proves that snowden doesn't have a chance, because choosing him won't increase sales.
I think there's actually a very good chance. These are journalists doing the picking after all although their selection will likely have pretty much zero to do with the results of an Internet poll. (The chances of it being Miley Cyrus on the other hand are about as close to zero as you can get.)
Depends on what you mean by "impact", as Stalin and Mao were both responsible for more famine, torture, and death than even Hitler. On the other hand Hitler's "impact" was probably more relevant to Time's audience (in the USA and Great Britain).
Don't forget, Awesome Award based on internet votes will be spammed all over Wikipedia, providing free advertising that points to Time Magazine, and wikipedia editors believe any award is some authoritative measure of success.
In a way, hacker news could make up an award based on internet votes and vote Miley Cyrus as the Greatest Creative Mind of the last 100 years. Wikipedia editors will be all over that.
A non-binding online poll to help pick who will be on the cover of a dying news magazine. Notable recent winners include Vladimir Putin and, uh, "you" as well as "A Protestor".