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WATCH: VICE journalist Brigitte Noël enters the world of FEMEN Quebec:Then we've got Sia at number six. SIA. There's the vague sense here that a Woman's Hour producer was on the school run and desperately trying to think of a way of injecting some pop culture onto the list, and then "Chandelier" came on Capital FM and that was it. Job done.It's awesome that Caitlyn Jenner is included—some might say her inclusion is an attempt at bandwagon-jumping, but she's globalized the conversation around trans rights in a way that, say, Laverne Cox probably couldn't.That said, there are clearly people who do commendable, important work on the list, but to scale the upper reaches it seems that those who have entered into the "media elite" get a disproportionately massive shout-out. What is the top ten? Is it a celebrity thing? Is it a celebration of worthiness? Is it about money? Is it about giving your friend a leg-up? Is it a code that needs to be cracked?
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