From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Time and the Internet.

Hello again, I'm Orin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues. Americans care about most.

Time magazine says,

Forget the Great Man Theory of History. Because of the internet, the many are taking power from the few.

So this year's person of the year is you, which means all the millions who blog, visit YouTube,

and MySpace, or contribute to Wikipedia. On to the point, is time on to something important?

Or is it pandering to the mass readership it fears that it's losing?

Does the Internet embody the wisdom of crowds?

Or the blather of people who don't know what they're talking about?

On reporter's notebook later on, open opposition to the war in Iraq from the active duty military.

First, here's the news.

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Hello again. I'm Arminolni, back with To the Poet. Instead of a single person of the year 2006, Time

Magazine has picked the entire community of the Internet. On To the Point, are Internet users changing

the way the world changes as time claims, or is time trying to get back the readers it's losing

to alternative media?

On reporter's notebook, the growing number of active duty military personnel who signed a petition

to bring the troops home from Iraq. First, this news update. Winter is hit with a vengeance in

Denver, Colorado, where dozens of major roads are impassable and blizzard warnings are still

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