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"Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939" Time Magazine made Hitler man of the year
by aSimplePlanner 5y ago
"Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939"
Time Magazine made Hitler man of the year in 1938 and Stalin in 1939.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year#1930s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year#1930s
- yesenadam 5y agoI'm not sure what your point is...?
- krapp 5y agoA lot of effort is being put forth in this thread to discredit the article and its author. It's weird how defensive an article from the 1940s about actual, literal, card-carry big-N Nazis is making people.
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoTime Magazine's "person of the year" was about running a feature on a figure who had a significant impact on the world recently, not necessarily about celebrating and approving of said figure.
- aSimplePlanner 5y agoNo, it's an overtly positive promotion of the winner for the year; hence, Gandhi 1930, Churchill 1940, Eisenhower 44 , George H Bush in 04 etc..
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoNo, as Time magazine itself puts it: it is a person that "for better or worse [my emphasis added], has most influenced events in the preceding year."
- aSimplePlanner 5y agoYou're clutching at straws by denying my assertion above. Wiki: Controversial choices: Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize, simply based on many previous selections of admirable people.[9]
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoIndeed, as your wiki citation notes, “Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary...”, so such interpretations as your own are mistaken.
- aSimplePlanner 5y agoPlease keep contradicting me as it just exposes your ignorance.
- dukeyukey 5y agoIn 1936 it was Wallis Simpson, who's marriage to King Edward VIII caused a constitutional crisis in the British Empire and a subsequent abdication, and in 1939 it was Stalin. So unless Time Magazine is a Monarchist Nazi Communist mag, it's probably not a promotional award.
- aSimplePlanner 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce
- dukeyukey 5y agoI'm not sure what you mean? It says he was an ardent anti-communist, and still had Stalin as Person of the Year twice.