We’s been had!
Yesterday I wrote about the 2004 Weblog awards. There’s been some noise recently about this being organized by a conservative weblog WizBang. In an of itself this is not necessarily a bad thing. However, it just so happens that almost every single freaking winner of the 2004 Weblog awards has a very conservative bent. What this says to me is that this whole thing has been fixed, a sham. For Pete’s sakes, even the LBGT category winner is an avowed conservative, and this is from a group that leans heavily to the left. The only exceptions to this rule is the actual liberal blog category, the tech blog category winner Engadget, an the Photoblog category. Speaking of which it appears several of the nominees from the Photoblog category withdrew because they did not like Wizbang’s political affiliations. Frankly I don’t care about their political affiliations, but the fact that you can deduce a political slant going the same direction from 90% of the main “best of” blogs in these awards just does not sit well with me. I think part of it too is that I had not heard of any such complaints until today, a full day after the awards came out. I guess one may still get a decent varied list of blogs from the nominees, but at this point I’m loath to use this site for anything. Wizbang, when you hold the 2005 Weblog awards, you might want to make it a little less obvious by not making just about all your winners avowed conservatives. Yeesh!
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