A great day for bloggers everywhere
This is truly remarkable: the TalkingPointsMemo blog won a Polk award for journalism today. The Polk award is one of the most prestigious awards in journalism — perhaps only second to a Pulitzer.
This should inspire bloggers everywhere, at least bloggers — like us — who make an attempt to do some original journalism.
I don’t expect this will change the low regard some members of the established media have for bloggers. But it should.
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i am sure it will also inspire slanderous jerks who like to shovel the $#!t around too. [couging loudly] mustard st blog.
either way the establishment will despise this medium, much like the dems and repubs despse third parties.
Mustard St. writes some good stuff as well, though I rarely agree with him.
maybe he writes some good stuff, but when they resort to calling people horrible names and outrageous comparisons to mass murderers, i think it goes a bit far. and by a bit i mean he should be in court. i don’t like maggie, but i don’t think i would religously refer to her as hitler.
Heh, this is delicious: It was Bill O’Reilly, if I recall correctly, who lied repeatedly when he used to say he had won a Peabody Award. Turns out it was just a Polk Award. But perhaps he should not have been so ashamed of his Polk after all.
The Polk really is prestigious but Inside Edition won it after O’Reilly left the show. It’s interesting that O’Reilly actually did have a point — that Inside Edition did so some good journalism, but he had to lie about the type of award they won and claim they won it while he was on the show.
He goes way overboard, don’t get he wrong. I guess I’m impressed when a conservative blogger writes in completely sentences. And he supports Spitzer.