Well, Iwantmedia.com has chosen Anderson Cooper as person of 2005. Not a bad choice, but hardly an individual of notoriety as others. Martha Stewart, the Google Guys are just a few. Then there was talk of Condi Rice, Bush's foreign policy GI, as VIP for 2005. Rice as 2005's person of the year would be a stick in the eye of journalistic integrity.
Then again Cooper is a very good choice.