The right-leaning blog Power Line will be named Blog of the Year by Time Magazine on Monday according to Associated Press.
Time calls Power Line bloggers John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson “amateur journalists” and credits them with the first blog post questioning Dan Rather’s sources.
“In 2004, blogs unexpectedly vaulted into the pantheon of major media, alongside TV, radio and, yes, magazines, and it was Power Line, more than any other blog, that got them there,” says the Time story, on newsstands tomorrow. I have to wonder how many blogs the editors read as Power Line had, until now, escaped my purview.
Does Time see all bloggers as amateur journalists? Even the ones who beat them to several major stories this year? If so, they don’t get what blogging is all about and they weren’t paying attention when bloggers broke, among other stories, the capture of Saddam Hussein a day before dead-tree media; brought down Trent Lott; exposed the fact that kryptonite bike locks could be opened with a ball point pen.
President Bush is Time’s man of the year. Shouldn’t that be Karl Rove, the puppet master?
Time Magazine Names Power Line Blog of the Year; Calls Them Amateur Journalists
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FYI, Powerline was also the blog that won the ‘Best Overall Blog’ category in the recent 2004 Weblog Awards contest.
http://2004weblogawards.com/archives/000079.php
Seems a lot of people like this blog.
With something like Slashdot getting 80 MILLION pages views a month, I would think they would win most popularity contests. I would be curious to know how the voting is done on all of the contests.
On the Blog of the Year Awards, you could go in repeatedly and vote for the same blog. Even my little dinky poll on this blog keeps people from voting twice. Seems to me any contest that doesn’t do that isn’t of much interest.
It appears that the Time’s Man of the Year has some explaining to do!
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17216&c=206
A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq.