On 7/12/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Basically, if you're not a "public figure" (which seems to be defined quite narrowly - perhaps in a similar way to the Western defamation definition?), *you don't get named* at all, much less have an article on you. I'm not a public figure. Angela's not a public figure. Daniel Brandt's not a public figure. You probably are, and so's Xeni, but there's the cutoff, I guess.
"Probably"? If you make the Time 100 anything, you're a public figure. There's no gray area.
Brandt is a public figure because, among other reasons, he's been interviewed by or featured in The New York Times about a half dozen times, and he's not only done this willingly (as opposed to being sucked into a news controversy like Brian Chase), he's courted it through press releases and other means.