A Peek into a Mind

Well, what do you know… Turns out that the little fight in the Time Magazine Person Of the Year survey got more sides then you would realize…

After writing my last post about the Survey fight, where Sharon supporters and Arafat supporters tried to pump each to a higher rank, I started to get a massive amount of hits to that specific page. To my surprise, turns out that the post link appeared on several Japanese sites that had something to do with the Time survey. Not being able to read Japanese myself, I’ve left a comment at my own page and asked people to explain what is all the fuss around this subject. Only then it turns out the Palestinians supporters got help from a very surprising place - Japan!

Apparently, there was nothing political in the Japanese “help” to pump votes to Arafat. One of the sites offered a special script for download and this was kind of a group effort to change results. Some Japanese also mentioned Masashi Tashiro who have won the time survey last year.

If you wish to go read comments left on the last post Head here. At least now we know why Arafat had so high votes rates (though I’m sure a lot of Palestinian supporters DID vote for him legally, but what made the serious impact were the Japanese scripts…)

Anyway, all the argument is not relevant now, that Time magazine have chosen Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins (who exposed the Enron scandal) as Persons of the year. Personally I think it shows Time magazine editors are really narrow minded since these 3 women (and the Enron Scandal) were REALLY FAR from being anything major this year, compared with some of the things that we been through. But then again, it’s THEIR magazine…