Obama is TIME’s Person of the Year
December 17, 2008
History was made on Nov. 5, 2008. So, how can a magazine choose anybody else but the history-maker President elect Obama for its branded and coveted Person of the Year issue? Well they did not and TIME choose the President-elect Obama as its POY. “In the most anticipated issue of the year, out Friday, TIME names President-elect Barack Obama 2008 Person of the Year,” the magazine’s press release said. Of note is the picture chosen for the cover. TIME’s managing editor Richard Stengel writes, “Our cover portrait is by the street artist Shepard Fairey whose roots are in the skateboarding world and whose early poster of then Senator Obama became the great populist image of the campaign.”
More on the POY later…
