Sunday, January 3, 2010

Rex Murphy On Time's Person Of The Year

TIME magazine has named Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, as its Person of the Year.

In the Globe and Mail Rex Murphy asks, why not Barack Obama?
I think Time went to the relatively faceless functionary Bernanke mainly not to name Barack Obama. Time, like a lot of its fellows in the wild world of the contemporary U.S. media, is in an awkward place with regards to Mr. Obama. Having devoted so much incense to his remarkable ascendancy, a great swath of his country's press is looking for a convenient and not too noticeable off-ramp while it – shall we say – recalibrates its enthusiasm.

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