Overruled! Zuckerberg Time's Person of the Year, Despite Popular Vote
Time managing editor Rick Stengel overruled readers in picking Mark Zuckerberg for Time’s 2010 Person of the Year, but as he pointed out, the process is “not a small ‘d’ democracy.”
Digital whistleblower and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was Time’s readers’ choice to be the magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year with 382,206 votes, but Stengel said he considered the long-term impact of the Harvard-dropout-turned-social-network-mogul—not just the past year’s.
“When I make the choice, I think of [what] has actually affected people’s lives the most [in] the past year,” he said.
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