TIME Person Of The Year Mark Zuckerberg Not Julian Assange - Time Wimps Out

TIME "Person Of The Year" Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg, and not Wikileak's Editor Julian Assange?

Yep. TIME wimped out big time.

Nothing against Facebook or it's founder and President Mark Zuckerberg, but Wikileaks and Julian Assange should have been named "Person Of The Year." Heck, Assange was the leading vote-getter. But you know someone connected with the drive to bring down Assange contacted TIME and begged and perhaps, maybe, paid them in some way not to go with what seems to be public support for Julian.

So, TIME did what any risk-adverse corporate brand would do: they wimped out and named Zuckerberg for the prize.

Facebook and Zuckerberg will be around for a while. TIME knows it could have named Zuckerberg in 2009 and could do so in 2011. By contrast, Wikileaks and Mr. Julian Assange are a product of 2010.

Julian Assange should have been TIME's "Person Of The Year."