Time's People of the Year

[Dill]

(12-11-2018, 01:37 PM)Au165 Wrote: The difference was this was a state sponsored torture and assassination of a member of the media, which is different then a criminal organization like a cartel doing it.

Even more difference: in this case the Trump administration, including son-in-law, provided cover and comfort to the head-of-state who sponsored the murder. 

The Time cover is a statement not about one murder elevated over others which remain ignored, but the larger, worldwide state of affairs, in which various national publics follow the lead of authoritarian leaders in denigrating the free press.