Is Time magazine’s “full” and “complete” transcript of its “Person of the Year” interview with Vladimir Putin a fraudulent cover up? It appears so.

It’s good news, bad news, old news time again, that time of the year when such hoary and perennial journalistic traditions as year-end retrospectives, ‘Best of,’ ‘Worst of,’ and ‘Top Ten’ lists and ‘Person of the Year’ selections all proliferate.