Quote Originally Posted by bennator
The thing is...person of the year is given to the person who influenced the news/world the most in that given year. That's why hitler and stalin both won it. That's why Osama bin Laden almost won it in 2001.
Oh, that would explain a lot. To be honest, this sort of thing has never interested me, so I wasn't entirely sure what it was about.

Still, its rather misleading to use the title 'Person of the Year', which suggests the person has had a positive impact on the world. Quite why an award such as this should exist at all is beyond me.