You can access the main page by clicking on the logo on the sidebar- click here to vote for Best Canadian. And be sure to visit them all, too, as that’s the primary goal of the exercise. As of a few days ago, over 300,000 votes had been cast across the different categories. Hats off to Kevin Aylward and the Wizbang crew for hosting and policing what has become a formidable project.
One vote per computer per day – and thanks again for the support SDA is receiving. Voting closes tonight at midnight, US Eastern time.
And if you want something else to vote for, click on over to Michael Yon’s blog and vote for his heart-wrenching picture “In His Arms” in the Time Magazine Picture of the Week contest.
Michael’s picture is alraedy a clear victor, commanding some 68% of the total vote when I cast my ballot (the next closest contender had 5%), but I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt to cement his victory.
Late birthday present to you – looks like you’re going to win again!!!
U Bloogers, cant ya stoptrashing the ssmMsmpbsctvcbcgobblemailnewrep at al? tsktsk . Why not become a “crackling blog” & become a dirty worker? >>>>
Bad News
The New Republic ^ | 12/15/05 | Franklin Foer
Posted on 12/15/2005 4:58:34 PM PST by Pikamax
wo months ago, I began reading the newspaper with a new set of eyes. That’s when The New Republic launched The Plank, a crackling blog to which I regularly contribute. Before my new career, I had largely consumed the Times, the Post, and the Journal in search of information. Now I read them in search of items. This eternal quest for Plank grist has changed my relationship to these papers. They used to be my Starbucks buddies, but now I treat them more as adversaries, to be debunked and ridiculed.
Newspapers deserve an army of enemies that nag them to be less lazy, less timid, and less nice. But they don’t deserve the savage treatment that they routinely receive in the blogosphere. The problem isn’t just that they have been flogged by bloggers desperate for material. It’s that the blogosphere nurses an ideological disdain for “Mainstream Media”–or MSM, as it has derisively (and somewhat adolescently) come to be known.
Perusing the Huffington Post, a hub of liberal blogging, you’ll find the MSM lambasted for its “usual sub-par, unsatisfactory, wholly misinformed, shitty job”; the MSM is, after all, filled with “lazy stenographer[s] … posing as journalist[s who] will gladly cut and paste this Republican propaganda.” Or, to put it even more bluntly, the “Beltway media really makes no effort to do anything other than parrot totally out-of-touch conventional wisdom–no matter how inane, stupid and ridiculous it is.”
You would expect this kind of populism from the right, which long ago pioneered the trashing of the MSM, or, as Spiro Agnew famously called its practitioners, “nattering nabobs of negativism.” The right has used media-bashing as political gimmickry–“Annoy the media, vote for Bush” was a 1992 slogan–and to produce mega-selling books like Bernard Goldberg’s manifesto, Bias. When they take these shots, they don’t just intend to rally their rank and file. They want to weaken the press so it will stop obstructing their agenda, a motive that liberal bloggers seem to have forgotten. By repeating conservative criticisms about the allegedly elitist, sycophantic, biased MSM, liberal bloggers have played straight into conservative hands. These bloggers have begun unwittingly doing conservatives’ dirty work …blahblah.. >>>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541360/posts
Kate — I am proud to cast a vote for you and your outstanding blog. You’re the very best !
Cheers to you.
You’re way out in front, Kate. As of my vote, you have 1736, and AGWN is in second place with 722.
Thanks Ed – as I explained before, I can neither vote or see the results, due to the flash function the page requires.
Yeah, me too Kate. I use this computer for work (when the clock’s running), so I won’t put any toys like Flash on it either.
And the winner, with 36.5% of the votes, is (drumroll) …. Colby Cosh!
I’m kidding. Congratulations, Kate.
Ha! Last year he complained about not making it as a finalist. This year, he’ll be regretting that! Ha!
Congradulations on how far ahead you are. I mean your blog is a little too right wing for my tastes but I skim through every once and awhile. I always have to support family. I’m impressed, you’re even beating a popular canadian musician.