TIME Magazine’s Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs unveiled a short-list, decided by the magazine's editors, with eight names on NBC’s Today Show on Monday. The winner will also feature on the cover of the magazine's special annual issue.
The annual poll, running for the past nine decades, contests between 50 people believed to have “most influenced the news this year for better or worse.”
Those short-listed for this year's prize include the Ferguson protesters, Ebola caregivers, Russian President Vladmir Putin, singer Taylor Swift, Alibaba founder and CEO Jack Ma, Apple CEO Tim Cook, acting President of Iraqi Kurds Masoud Barzani, and the US National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell.
The teenage rights campaigner, who had survived a Taliban shooting in 2012, had already fallen short in Time’s online reader's poll where she secured 60% favourable votes, and an overall score of 4.9%. The polls closed on Sunday.
Of those short-listed, the Ferguson protesters received the most ‘Yes’ votes in the online poll with 71% and 9.2% overall favourable votes. Ebola caregivers received 61% favourable votes and 4.5% overall votes. However, Goodell received just 2% of ‘Yes’ votes. Barzani was not featured in the 50 person online poll.
The online poll, where Time’s readers had voted, saw new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the winner with 16.2% of total votes and 78% favourable votes. However, Putin, who made the short-list, received only 40% favourable votes and 4.3% of the overall votes.
By contrast, new Indonesian President Joko Widodo received 33% of favourable votes. Brazillian President Dilma Rousseff received 15% favourable votes and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan only 14% favourable votes.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel had received 25% favourable votes while US President Barack Obama received 23% favourable votes and new Chinese President Xi Jinping received only 14% favourable votes.
However, both Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and new Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi received less favourable votes than Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (12%) with 10% favourable votes and nine per cent favourable votes respectively. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu though received only 11% ‘Yes’ votes.
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The difference is that while Indians work hard to promote their nominee,Pakistanis do all they can to pull their hero down.It is the only country in the world that have an agenda to demean itself,and its heroes.
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