Blog Of The Year

Last week Time Magazine awarded their Blog Of The Year. These are the three guys responsible for unveiling CBS News as frauds. Their coverage led to show how the Bush National Guard documents were fakes.

Last week Time Magazine awarded their Blog Of The Year. These are the three guys responsible for unveiling CBS News as frauds. Their coverage led to show how the Bush National Guard documents were fakes.

Anyway, what’s been interesting is that two of the three live here in Minneapolis. They’ve been keeping busy posting to their blog on a daily basis. The legacy, mainstream media has been hounding them because it’s sort of obvious that these guys don’t work hard for a living (lawyer in a big downtown firm, VP of a bank) but instead use their time to blog during the day, sort of demonstrating that their presence has become an online beacon for right-wing agenda advancement.

I actually read their blog. I think it’s neat because these guys don’t have to answer to journalistic standards. Instead, they have to write knowing that it’s their professional reputation on the line (pun intended). Interesting distinction.

But…what’s heated up is that the Star Tribune responded.

It’s sad that my notion of fun-juicy-gossip is now watching journalists and bloggers go back and forth in a saucy tiff.

EDIT by matthew: Tag ends, formatting adjusted.

8 thoughts on “Blog Of The Year”

  1. Robbed

    I understand that Barnson.org was a close second. But I think it just was a beauty contest in the end.

    — Ben Schuman Mad, Mad Tenor

    1. Close second…

      We’re so low on the blogging food chain that we are hardly a blip on the radar.

      Which is really kind of the way I like it. Other than Weed, I know every single participant here in real life! And all it takes is a phone call to Weed to remove that single obstacle…

      —
      Matthew P. Barnson

        1. Don’t forget…

          And he knows the words to EVERY SONG EVER MADE, and can’t carry a tune in a dunp truck.

          Matt, I’ll be the dude working the sound board at the WS reunion. And that’s only because I’m married, or I’d be the dude working the groupies at the WS reunion 🙂

          My $.02 Weed

          1. WS Reunion

            That brings up an interestting point… who do we have to havdle the WS groupies now? None of us are single now – we need to get a WS pretty boy whose job is to take care of the hoochies, I guess? We can’t neglect our fans!

          4. Dude

            That means it’s all about indoctrinating a new generation of WS fans, right? Rather than the age-appropriate groupies we attracted in high school and college, we’re at the time of our lives where we should be attracting groupies who are at least 10 years younger than us. Maybe we should reinvent ourselves the same way Rage Against the Machine became Audioslave. It could work.

            Uh, why are you guys looking at me like that?

            — Ben Schuman Mad, Mad Tenor

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