2023 Time Person of the Year

[HanSenSE]

Guess the new hire at Gannett has something to write about today.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Crap. The Mrs. Is going to make me get a magazine from the store today

 

[bigpern23]

Makes sense. A perfectly cromulent selection.

 

[HanSenSE]

Crap. The Mrs. Is going to make me get a magazine from the store today

And from what I'm seeing on teh Twitterez, there's multiple covers.

A feel-good pick after Elon?
World leaders, astronauts, scientists, Hitler ... Taylor Swift?

 

[BTExpress]

Guess they won't be picking Greta "From The River To The Sea . . . " Thunberg again.


And why didn't the new hire at Gannett break the story?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

As the story states, Swift was the main character of 2023. I really don't know who else it could have been.

(And the extra newsstand sales to Swifties certainly won't hurt the bottom line.)

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Coach Prime unavailable?

 

[Spartan Squad]

And from what I'm seeing on teh Twitterez, there's multiple covers.

 

[Alma]

As the story states, Swift was the main character of 2023. I really don't know who else it could have been.

(And the extra newsstand sales to Swifties certainly won't hurt the bottom line.)

It’s for sales. Little more.

In the arts the person of the year is Greta Gerwig. But Barbie hit over the summer, and Gerwig isn’t dating a football-playin, Jabroni-hatin teammate of Patrick Mahomes.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Dang. I was rooting for more of a generic collective “Angry Internet Poster” sort of thing. Oh well, that will give me something to rant about later when I get my dander up.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

It’s for sales. Little more.

In the arts the person of the year is Greta Gerwig. But Barbie hit over the summer, and Gerwig isn’t dating a football-playin, Jabroni-hatin teammate of Patrick Mahomes.

It's always for sales, little more. But I think a case can be made that Swift deserved it over anybody else and the article does a great job of laying out that case. But, damn, it's a long read.

 

[HanSenSE]

Guess they won't be picking Greta "From The River To The Sea . . . " Thunberg again.


And why didn't the new hire at Gannett break the story?

It's Gannett. Waiting for it to aggregate.

 

[sgreenwell]

It’s for sales. Little more.

In the arts the person of the year is Greta Gerwig. But Barbie hit over the summer, and Gerwig isn’t dating a football-playin, Jabroni-hatin teammate of Patrick Mahomes.

"Barbie" was a two or three month phenomenon that was buffered on each end by Swift content.

 

[playthrough]

Of course they're selling magazines (is that a bad thing?) but it's also a bulletproof choice.

 

[kickoff-time]

I'm just happy Time is still publishing.

Love or hate her, Taylor Swift had amazing influence in 2023.

 

[Alma]

"Barbie" was a two or three month phenomenon that was buffered on each end by Swift content.

I'm aware of her influence.

Did she give Time an interview? Kudos to Time, if so. Good way to get one.

 

[BTExpress]

You mean, did she give Time the Time of day?

 

[DanOregon]

A place to comment on the days "news" (you have wide parameters), but must be in the form of a Larry Kingism

..Wasn't the announcement of the MVP and Cy Young Awards for baseball a bigger deal not too long ago?,,,

---Write this down, the Time "person of the year" will be Artificial Intelligence - or Taylor Swift...

---For my money, there is no better food than a Reuben sandwich at Musso & Franks...

 

[User 149557]

Seventy-five percent of people walking by a cover at Wal-Mart or Target wouldn’t know Greta Gerwig’s face.

 

[kickoff-time]

Irrelevant to this discussion, but can someone explain the popularity of Jennifer Coolidge.

Yes, I know she started an entire genre from
American Pie. I don't watch White Lotus, but I don't think the Discover commercials are clever or funny in the least.
Is it just a goof of her playing a ditzy blonde?

I've seen her in interviews and she was terrible. Really gave vague answers and was not funny at all.

What am I missing?