Person of The Year: Time Magazine Gets It Right

Spot-on picks for Time Person of the Year. When CNN's Brian Stelter asked for picks the other day, here was my suggestion, which was a bit similar to what the magazine chose:

It has to be Jamal Khashoggi. A free and vibrant press is under attack across the globe, as tyrants in power feeling increasingly comfortable with silencing journalists and others who would otherwise speak truth to power. The shocking and gruesome murder of Khashoggi has at least shined a light on the importance of a free press and how the Fourth Estate is often the only thing standing in the way of tyranny. Even if Time doesn't pick Khashoggi, he could be part of a larger package on journalism, truth tellers... or just The Truth.

Here's how Time explained its choices: The 2018 Person of the Year issue features four covers depicting Philippines-based editor Maria Ressa, jailed Burmese journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the staff of the Capital Gazette, and the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in October at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. “By featuring four distinct covers, we were able to amplify different voices from around the world,” says TIME creative director D.W. Pine. “In the process of just doing their jobs, our cover subjects faced dangerous threats in what continues to be a global war on the truth.”