<div>At the end of the day, it's about anything that increases the "bottom line", I suppose if is to spark and generate controversy and if that creates an increase in "sales" then I can see why they would be inclined to but if anything, what we are seeing is a crisis of "ethics" and "values".</div>
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<div>What do we "value"? Do we value "transparency"? If the $$$ causes one to determine decisions (which is almost 99% of the time true in a commercial context) at any cost (maybe that's exaggerating)...but if the opportunity cost is "transparency"....hmmmm</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Avri Doria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">hi,<br><br>Isn't Time a business and its cover a marketing gimmick.<br><br>maybe the readers who voted and figured a business would care what they thought should be upset (i read TIme, but did not vote, why would i?), but other than that, what difference could this possibly make.<br>
<br>besides Assange was on the cover 2 weeks ago.<br><font color="#888888"><br>a.<br></font>
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<div class="h5"><br>On 15 Dec 2010, at 19:58, Paul Lehto wrote:<br><br>> For both internet and transparency purposes, Time Magazine's Person of<br>> the Year choice, in light of its own Readers' Poll results, is<br>
> astounding.<br>><br>> First, Time Magazine's Person of the Year starts with the Time<br>> Readers' Poll -- which is now closed -- and which shows Assange in<br>> first place, easily way ahead of everyone else for Time's 2010 Person<br>
> of the Year:<br>><br>> 1. Julian Assange 382,026 votes, and 92% avg<br>> rating (all voters)<br>> 2. Recep Tayyip Erdogan 233,639 (avg rating 80%<br>> 3. Lady Gaga 146,378 (avg rating 70%)<br>
> 4. Jon Stewart and John Colber 78,145, (avg rating 81%)<br>> [snip]<br>> 6. Barack Obama 27,478 (avg rating 58%)<br>> 8. the Chilean Miners 29,124 (avg rating 47%).<br>> 9. The Unemployed American 19,605 (avg rating 66%)<br>
> 10. Marc Zuckerberg 18,353 (avg rating 52%)<br>> [snip]<br>> See <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2029036,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2029036,00.html</a><br>
><br>> SO, after the Time Readers' Poll, WHO IS TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR?<br>><br>> Well.... There was a "NOTE" attached to the Readers' Poll" to the<br>> direct effect that "TIME's editors who choose the actual Person of<br>
> the Year reserve the right to disagree."<br>><br>> And, boy, did Time editors ever disagree with the people that are<br>> their own readers and customers.<br>><br>> With a publication date of today (December 15, 2010) they chose the<br>
> 10th place finisher, Marc Zuckerbook of Facebook, who got less than<br>> one vote for every 20.8 votes Assange got from Time Readers' Poll, and<br>> got only about half the positive ranking of Assange (52% for<br>
> Zuckerberg, 92% for Assange).<br>> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html</a><br>><br>> But, to me, the biggest contrast and biggest shock, bigger than<br>
> choosing the 10th place finisher over the first place finisher in the<br>> Readers' Poll, is the stark contrast between #1 Assange and #10<br>> Zuckerberg on WHOSE transparency should get facilitated:<br>><br>
> Assange is all about transparency/accountability for the powerful,<br>> while Facebook (while it has other functions) is about transparency<br>> (and necessarily accountability of various kinds) for the average<br>
> people. Facebook for example, is being monitored by US government<br>> officials to gather information and intelligence on its own citizens<br>> in certain contexts. Things like Facebook make it enormously easier<br>
> for the government to monitor aspects of the private lives of netizens<br>> who often innocently think they're sharing just with their "Facebook<br>> friends."<br>><br>> TIME has had Hitler as man of the year decades ago, and routinely<br>
> stresses that selection of a Person of the Year isn't a personal<br>> endorsement.<br>><br>> But it is telling, isn't it, that if TIME thinks Zuckerberg's social<br>> media is the wave of the present and of the future, TIME nevertheless<br>
> had to resort to grossly undemocratic means to amplify the cause of a<br>> Facebook founder and ignore the overwhelmingly more popular cause of<br>> accountability / transparency for the powerful governments and<br>
> corporations in the USA and around the world represented by Assange.<br>><br>> Simply put, the person that has the power to demand or force<br>> transparency on the other person or entity (like government) is the<br>
> master, and the one who must yield their privacy pretty much whenever<br>> asked, and must be totally transparent when required is the servant or<br>> slave entity.<br>><br>> Despite the "relevance" of Zuckerberg, I find Time's choice to ignore<br>
> its own readers and undemocratically choose Zuckerberg to be chilling<br>> when the type of "transparency" fostered by Facebook is compared to<br>> the type of transparency offered and fostered by Julian Assange and<br>
> Wikileaks.<br>><br>> In the Assange/Zuckergerg contrast, the status of ascending masters<br>> and descending slaves is clear. Unless, of course, Assange continues<br>> to win and decisions like TIME's POY debacle are exposed to a form of<br>
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