Time responds to my letter to editor

[johncoby2]

Cant tell if this is a form letter or not. Probalby is:

>This year we gave our relatives subscriptions to Time for a small Christmas
>gift. This year they don't want it.
>
>Neither do I.
>
>
>--


Dear Reader:

We regret your disappointment over the selection of President Bush as
TIME's Person of the Year. But perhaps we should remind you of the
traditional standard by which the editors make their annual choice.
The Person of the Year is not an award or a tribute. The question at
the center of the selection process is, Who or what, for better or
worse, has affected the way we live today? The answer to that
question could be a force for good (for example, Winston Churchill,
Man of the Year, 1940; Dwight Eisenhower, 1944) or for evil (Adolf
Hitler, Man of the Year, 1939; Ayatullah Khomeini, 1979). And to the
latter, President George W. Bush must be added for 2004 -- there is
no one else whose agenda and actions in the past year had such
universal impact. As managing editor Jim Kelly noted in his Letter
From the Editor, Bush has had his highs and lows over the past four
years, but in the end he prevailed in the 2004 election by
"persuading a majority of voters this time around that he deserved to
be in the White House for another four years."

Thank you for writing. We appreciated having the opportunity to
respond to your concerns.

Best wishes.


TIME Letters

[Blue Diadem]

1. You might want to edit your personal info.

I'm sure you don't want the freepers harassing you.

[NV Whino]

2. This appears to be an exact duplicate

of the one that another DUer got.

[Artemis Bunyon]

3. Their response is pretty compelling.

I haven't read the article accompanying their choice, but the choice itself is no endorsement. Many freaks have been Time's Man of the Year. Stalin, twice!

[Darth_Ole]

6. Yes, I agree... Going by their criteria, I can't really argue their choice

Everybody here knows what a sunuvabitch Bush is, but it's hard to argue that he's been most influential.

Besides, in the grand scheme of things, does this really matter?

[NYC]

4. Edit out your name and address before it is too late.

That is not a good idea.

[paula777]

5. I'm writing it down .... I'm writing down the address

[Bronco69]

7. Please edit your personal info.

Hatemail is no fun unless you're reading it here at DU.

[zoeb]

8. Bush was their man because

Scott Peterson lacked the "universal impact" attribute.

[johncoby2]

9. you guys are paranoid! eom

[Bluebear]

10. There's good reason to be in this day and age.

I, too, would edit my personal info out.

[livinginphotographs]

11. Seriously, edit it out.

There was an incident a while back where a freeper figured out who a DUer was and got him fired.

I've have reasonably accessable personal info from here, but I'd never post my home address or phone number.

Really, edit it out! (I'm sitting here nervous just reading all that personal info)

[Bronco69]

12. OK then don't edit it

But will you promise to post each of the letters you get and tell us about each phone call?

[johncoby2]

13. OK OK I did it. Thanks for the heads up

[livinginphotographs]

14. Good job.

I'm breathing a sigh of relief for you. Those freepers can be nasty.

:thumbsup:


/end hijack

[MidwestTransplant]

15. If that's true, please ask them why they didn't choose OBL for Man of the

Year. Wimps.