gunsmoke on 28/4/2009 at 17:41
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TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says moot is no less deserving than previous title holders like Nintendo video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (2007) and Korean pop star Rain (2006). "I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll," he says.
"Doubting the results is kind of the point." Then why bother?
henke on 28/4/2009 at 18:01
Yes, I read Time. They usually have interesting articles about current events written in a way that me, THE PERSON ON THE STREET, can understand and enjoy!! OKAY?? OKAY!!
deth, out of interest, who would be your pick for most influental person?
omg I just realized something... we should have a TTLG Poster of the year poll! Someone remember to do this next year!
Shakey-Lo on 28/4/2009 at 18:18
it was an internet vote and the result was undoubtedly due to 4chan swarming the vote "for the lulz". I think the simple fact that moot was able to receive enough votes from his own site to win the poll makes his influence pretty self-evident in a funny sort of way....
demagogue on 28/4/2009 at 18:56
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Then why bother?
This is really the key question for all media in the internet age, isn't it?
gunsmoke on 28/4/2009 at 20:16
Quote Posted by demagogue
This is really the key question for all media in the internet age, isn't it?
Um, no...:confused:
I am wondering why, considering that the pollers themselves reference the irrelevence of the poll, they still see it as 'news'. What are you getting at? Media is a helluva 'wide' term.
june gloom on 28/4/2009 at 20:43
Quote Posted by henke
deth, out of interest, who would be your pick for most influental person?
Honestly? Obama, for good or bad. Regardless of what one thinks of his policies, people seem to LOSE THEIR SHIT over Obama. From the (
http://headostate.com/) creepy fanclub who can't shut up to the folks who refused to vote because "he black", there's no denying Obama has entered the global consciousness.
BEAR on 28/4/2009 at 20:45
True, but that would be a little too easy.
demagogue on 28/4/2009 at 21:02
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Um, no...:confused:
I am wondering why, considering that the pollers themselves reference the irrelevence of the poll, they still see it as 'news'. What are you getting at? Media is a helluva 'wide' term.
Newspapers are dropping like flies; tv now feels like it has to go online; novels are adjusting themselves to handheld consumption... And then you get to the content.
I get that you were making a modest point, but to me it was part of a bigger picture: Media in the helluva wide sense is faced with an increasingly online public, which as that guy properly implied, is the champion of the irrelevant... They still want to go through the motions of saying they're reporting 'news', but read any newspaper or news magazine, watch any news program, and they are all under the same kind of pressure to add this kind of circus routine to their repertoire. So for me, the question "why bother?" is more and more relevant for what all kinds of media are being pressured into, also.
