Williams, Cooper Suggest Names For ‘Time’

A panel of six “notables,” including NBC’s Brian Williams and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, offered suggestions for Time’s Person of the Year in New York today.

The AP says the group “made a strong case…for awarding the distinction this year to Hurricane Katrina.”

“Katrina gets you to Iraq. It gets you to petroleum. It gets you to presidential politics,” Williams is quoted as saying. “It has laid bare so many cracks and fissures in our system.”

But on his blog, BW says the AP story is wrong. He nominated Mother Nature, not Katrina…

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