It may not be as noteworthy as Time’s Person of the Year, but CNN appears to have actually stuck to the results of its voting in selecting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange their “Most Intriguing Person of the Year.”
Though the article spends much of its time carping about whether Assange is a hero or a villain, and went on about his Saturday Night Live character, it at least acknowledges what is truly the big story of the year, the leaks.
Assange beat out President Obama and several others in the poll. The only person seemingly deserving comparable levels of attention, Pfc Bradley Manning, was once again snubbed by not even being on the list.
