******Disclousre - I am a newb to Indiblogger. Please forgive my inclination to create a topic even before the water dries behind my ears.******
Should Indibloggers run a set of Awards for the media on the lines of the Ignoble Awards of the Golden Rasberry Awards?
One of the (many) reasons why blogs are rising in popularity is that they present a good alternative to the mainstream media. A lot of the genuine political commentary, for example, does not find a space in the mainstream media (personal opinion).You do however find it (sometimes not so easily) on the blogging networks.The mainstream media is also leveraging Web 2.0 (Blogs, Twitter, Facebook etc). Some of them are making good Astroturf (fake ground support) others are just proving to be big Twits (pun intended).I was wondering if it would be appropriate for Indibloggers to vote for the worst in media (like the ignoble or raspberries). An example of categories could be –
- A “Chihuahua award” for the journalist who barks the most but has the least bite.
- A “Reprint Award” award for the channel that lifts the worst headline stories of social networking sites
- A “Unfair and Ugly award” for the most baseless ad-campaign
We could have maybe five categories in all, that poke some real sarcastic fun at the media and the way they behave.We could synch this with the annual awards that many media houses now have. Theie wards typicall recognize stuff like “Indian of the year” and “businessmen of the year” which is turning out to be nothing more than applications for a Padma Award or a reciprocator for Advertising revenue. From the little that I have seen of Indibloggers, as a collective it is very effective at getting positive visibility for quality content. I want to suggest that we take this a step further and look outward as well.What’s in it for Indiblogger? More eyeballs for the community, which translates to more eyeballs for blogs.
How would it work?
- The community nominates a group of people to develop the categories.
- The community nominates to the category
- The community and the general public vote for each of the categories
- From start to finish it should take about 3 months to execute (my uneducated guess).
Any thoughts?Anand
