[quote=afx114]This comes up from time to time whenever a controversial person is put on the cover. It is not an “award” but rather a proclamation of the single person who most influenced, effected, and/or shaped the year. [/quote]
The “proclamation” is still a farce, even by the definition above. In 1982 it went to a non-person, the computer!
It is nothing more than clever marketing by Time magazine. A list of their past winners:
