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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: TIME 2011 Person of the Year Panel - Part 7 [Watch (HLS stream): TIME 2011 Person of the Year Panel - Part 7](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8GL3G8Gq.m3u8) (4:53)  _Published 2011-11-17. Part 7 of TIME's panel discussion with Mario Batali, Jesse Eisenberg, Anita Hill, Seth Meyers, Grover Norquist and Brian Williams on who should be the 2011 Person of the Year_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:19 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [TIME 2011 Person of the Year Panel - Part 1](/video/sUegcZ7S/) ### TIME 2011 Person of the Year Panel - Part 1 [TIME 2011 Person of the Year Panel - Part 3](/video/vx62RRLX/) ### TIME 2011 Person of the Year Panel - Part 3 [TIME 2011 Person of the Year Panel - Part 5](/video/sEPOGvNI/) ### TIME 2011 Person of the Year Panel - Part 5 --- ## Transcript Yes, Bobby? I, I just wanna throw an idea out there for, for anybody or all of you to, to pick over. China, as, as a country, for years we've, we've, we've worried that China was gonna eat our lunch. This is the year where it's now the 2nd largest economy of the world. This is the year when the world turns to China to save us. And we are hoping that China, buy buying more and by, by lending more money will save the world from this particular economic situation. Europeans are looking to China to bail them out just as corporate America is to some degree. I'm sort of interested in hearing your opinion on that. We could finally do Hu Jintao this year, after all those years. Anybody wanna engage with that? In a way like saying the American president could be person of the year, China could be the person of the year every year basically. Well I think if China turns out to be the solution in Europe you know, if Chinese money saves Europe it will be a complete shift as to the role America plays you know, I know Obama you know it goes over the G20 now. It's not like, you know, is there anything I can do to help. We could use the money. It's like we're kind of taxed right now. [ LAUGH ] So, you're trying to set it up and I think you would make a very good argument that they. In fact I meant to ask whether [ UNKNOWN ] and [ UNKNOWN ] were good guys or bad guys. If they were [ INAUDIBLE ] I think they kind of would serve as that just trying to influence ear the most. I don't know if they're I, I do think that the problem with Europe is how it's just too, there's no central idea, there's no coming together like, we have to get together to solve this crisis. There's a lot of people saying like, I think these people should pay for it, and I think these people should pay for it. And unless we have one central idea, which is what you need leaders for. I mean, that's where you need leadership, and I don't know if in the end. His real show they have the leaders that you repeated Seth likes the G- 20 because every night is open mic night. [ LAUGH ] You know I have a question about China. A little net and Yahoo humor. Go ahead sorry. The question I have about China really though is whether the system is going to hold together. In China. Or whether they might be China, Chinese government might be subject to some kind of revolution. And if that's the case, will China be the solution to some of the economic woes around the country? I mean around the globe. I, I, I don't, I don't know the answer to that. Maybe those of you who cover China would be more knowledgeable about what's going on internally in China. So we have time for one more question and I'm sorry, but I'm gonna choose John Michum who [ LAUGH ] Who knows something about magazine making and making selections, he's the new contributing editor of Time, who writes weekly for Time. com and also a column in the magazine. John. Thank you sir. This is not a suggestion but I wanna see if your assessment of the thesis. If the test is the individual who shaped the news the most, what is the case for and against George W Bush, in terms of the economy, the Arab's brain, Afghanistan, and are we in fact living in a world that he created. Which the President would call a ditch. In come the President but. So the idea that we inherited the world that helped Yeah. For good and for ill. Who wants to weigh in on that. I don't think he did it as a strategy. I think he haphazardly fell into a lot of the mistakes that he made and quite frankly shouldn't be here, in a sense. He did shape it, but he did it a long time ago and right now this year we have to find somebody a, a little bit more compelling, a little bit more directed. [ LAUGH ] So well, why don't we end on that? [ LAUGH ] I guess. [ UNKNOWN ] revolution is the real answer, I'm just trying to get somebody to go for it. I think it would be worth doing, just for him, like, walking down to the mailbox, taking his time, being like, how did this happen? [ LAUGH ] 2011, [ CROSSTALK ] you see this? I've been on TV like twice this year. [ LAUGH ] [ CROSSTALK ] Trick joke cover. [ LAUGH ] That's just for the brand I think, I think that would be the answer. But you know what, but Jesse I wanna elude to something you said, know something about something. Everybody here knows something about something, has learned something about something, I'd actually argue that. It's the greatest period in history to be in the news, and information business. In part, because of Steve Jobs, and the fact that we can communicate in ways that we never had before. And I think that is changing the world. And I think this is the best person of the year panel we've actually ever had before. So, have a good time [ INAUDIBLE ]. Thank you so much. And that's all on the table. [ LAUGH ] Yeah. 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