The case against ‘Blogger of the Year’ Nick Robinson

RT @leftfootfwd: The case against 'Blogger of the Year' Nick Robinson http://bit.ly/aqOsDM

Have to agree with @leftfootfwd, Nick Robinson doesn't deserve 'Blogger of the Year' http://bit.ly/aqOsDM

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note from @leftfootforward that '5 of the 13 categories had no shortlisted women' in todays 'comment awards' @eiclub http://bit.ly/92WSzT

Why @BBCnickrobinson's award for Blogger of the Year has annoyed some: RT @leftfootfwd: The case against http://bit.ly/aqOsDM

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Odd choice RT @leftfootfwd: The case against 'Blogger of the Year' Nick Robinson http://bit.ly/9ZmvOJ

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Some surprise/derision after @BBCnickrobinson picked up the blogger award at #ie comment awards this morning http://ow.ly/2X11F

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RT @TimMontgomerie: Have to agree with @leftfootfwd, Nick Robinson doesn't deserve 'Blogger of the Year' http://bit.ly/aqOsDM

RT @TimMontgomerie: Have to agree with @leftfootfwd, Nick Robinson doesn't deserve 'Blogger of the Year' http://bit.ly/aqOsDM

RT @leftfootfwd: The case against 'Blogger of the Year' Nick Robinson http://bit.ly/aqOsDM

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RT @leftfootfwd: The case against 'Blogger of the Year' Nick Robinson http://bit.ly/9ZmvOJ

Agree. But the whole ei awards a nonsense that no one takes seriously. Pointless thinktank. They don’t even know wht the word commentariat means!

Nick Robinson "Blogger of the Year"?? http://bit.ly/9ZmvOJ He once said he doesn't even bother to read the comments.

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[...] It appears Will Straw has also vented some spleen about the [...]

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Ha – it’s absurd for Robinson to have won that award. It looks like a way for the journalistic establishment to say, “actually, blogging and the techniques of blogging aren’t very important, whilst the traditional top-down media is”.

Nick Robinson is a total tool and the sooner he is sacked the better.

He is a mouthpiece for the establishment – and doesn’t even live up to the billing of journalist, let alone blogger.

Whilst I’m at it – Andrew Marr could do with an axe being placed firmly between his ears as well.

Evan Davis is a useless sack of shit who was proclaiming Gordon Brown ‘the greatest chancellor of all time’ just before it all went off. Not that the signs weren’t there punching everyone in the face. House prices, personal debt, overspending at the top of the cycle. What a twonk

@mashwalker @cwwatson disgraceful stuff…. http://bit.ly/auFiHv

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RT @TimMontgomerie: Have to agree with @leftfootfwd, Nick Robinson doesn't deserve 'Blogger of the Year' http://bit.ly/aqOsDM

RT @leftfootfwd: The case against 'Blogger of the Year' Nick Robinson http://bit.ly/aqOsDM <'sublime' and 'ridiculous'…

You fail to mention that Nick Robinson never reads any of the comments on his blog. If his attention needs to be drawn to inaccurate reporting (sadly a not infrequent occurrence) you need to complain loudly and volubly (and several times so they don’t just ignore it) to the BBC complaints section, who, when the complaint is fully justified might just get BBC management to have a word in his ear. I speak from personal experience.

I never really get these ‘not enough women’ whines.

Is Jon Snow saying that the panel was sexist or that women should get their act together?
Perhaps he should resign his prime position in favour of a female?
Or perhaps he could just pontificate to serve his own image

This award is for his support for the Tories during the election. He is a Tory spin doctor paid by the BBC. If you leave a comment saying it is bias, it gets removed. If you complain though BBC complaint procedures, nothing happens.

RT @leftfootfwd: The case against 'Blogger of the Year' Nick Robinson http://bit.ly/9ZmvOJ

I think you are protesting too hard, I also think that you fancied yourself for it, didn’t you?

1. It’s a meaningless award from a meaningless think tank.
2. You aren’t that good.

Cheerio.

I think Jim Stab and Mike Thomas are close to the truth, but Editorial Intelligence is not a think tank. It is a subscription club run by former lobbyist/PR type Julia Hobsbawm. It’s purpose is to sell access to important “comment” journalists to the corporations and sundry rich folk who pay her fees. The journalists get the prizes and a nice night out, and maybe an expenses paid jolly later. The corporate suits get to feel all influential, and Julia Hobsbawm collects the cash – like a kind of dating agency (politely), or a kind of pimping operation .Of course Will Straw and Left Foot Forward are better bloggers than Nick Robinson – mostly because he is hardly a blogger at all. But Robinson is more influential because of his BBC role, so for an influence peddler like Hobsbawm, he must get the prize , whatever the category.

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In reply to comment by NickSmeggHead at 12:51 pm…

You must be on the extreeeeeme left think that. Seriously. Your comments were removed, probably, becasue they were dire insults and clearly from a deranged mind. NR is, patently, “of the left”, as is most of the BBC.

It shouldn’t have anything to do with quantity but quality. Too many bloggers, including on left foot forward, put something out even when they have nothing to say.
Best bloggers? See Paul Mason and Adam Curtis at the beeb, both wonderfully interesting if only sporadic bloggers. I’d prefer one of either of their blogs than 1,000 from many other bloggers, including yourself (no offence Will!)
See Curtis’ latest – http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/
For the best of Mason – http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2010/10/the_penury_of_americas_middle.html

It seems it's true. Nick Robinson is "Editorial Intelligence" (who?) blogger of the year. See excellent @leftfootfwd: http://bit.ly/dhmbf4

@NickSmeggHead

Seeing as Robinson is as much a Tory as Shaun Woodward or Quentin Davies, BBC complaints know instinctively that complaints of pro-Tory bias by him are wrong by definition. At least my complaint was about factual inaccuracy (he hadn’t bothered to research something provable in numbers, and simply assumed the very wrong answer to suit his BBC party agenda).

In reply to Span Ows

You must extreme rightwing Daily Mail reader if you think Nick Robinson is ‘of the left’! Remember he used to the President of the Oxford University Conservative Association whose members tend to be right of the Tory party. When BBC are impartial, right wingers like you complain that BBC is of the left. BBC used to be impartial until they changed the tack in 2005.

Meanwhile… RT @leftfootfwd: The case against 'Blogger of the Year' Nick Robinson http://bit.ly/9ZmvOJ

RT @leftfootfwd: The case against 'Blogger of the Year' Nick Robinson http://bit.ly/9ZmvOJ – why on earth did that dick win?

Touche Smegg, I didn’t intend my comment to appear so rude. Anyway, your comment re NR at Uni would indicate that half of New Labour are Commies/Marxists etc. The BBC changed tack in the 80s and hardened that stance in the 90s and even more so in ’97 when their political research bods joined New Labour! There was no change of tack in 2005, they have supported New Labour and still do, in fact they seem to be getting worse and not trying to hide it so much.

Robinson is an overweaning self-promoter. He may have got his award because they’re counting his underscreen comments that get added to live political events and detract from what the speakers are actually saying (they are now adding his photograph to them).

Or perhaps the 3/4 of the screen that was devoted to his comments during George Osborne’s speech with George squashed into the top corner. During the elections he was in front of the camera more than the politicians explaining what “the truth” is (usually the opposite of what the poor sod whose edited clip he was supposed to be commenting on actually said)

As for Robinson’s political bias, one can hardly forget the way he “mugged” Alistair Darling in the middle of the election campaign by repeatedly interrupting him with the pre-prepared phrase “your cuts will be deeper than Margaret Thatcher’s won’t they?” Darling eventually mumbled something and appeared to nod – producing the BBC headline “Darling says that his cuts will be deeper than Margaret Thatcher’s”.

One can hardly think of anything more calculated to stop Labour supporters voting for the party than the suggestion that they would cut deeper than Thatcher. The Tories still use the phrase now on occasion.

RT @jackofkent: It seems it's true. Nick Robinson is "Editorial Intelligence" (who?) blogger of the year. See excellent @leftfootfwd: http://bit.ly/dhmbf4

This is for you Span “Nick Robinson is ‘of the left’” Ows

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/oct/21/nick-robinson-anti-war-protester

“In July, for example, Robinson only posted eight blogs and often goes three to four days without posting.”

He must be listening. Updated five times today…although one was solely devoted to apologising for his unprofessional behaviour last night!

[...] protestors sign. Now Nick Robinson isn’t really popular in the blogospheres (see here and here) as he represents many of the complaints that bloggers have about the Lobby and the [...]

Oh dear, Smeggy, see my comment here:

http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/10/respect-to-nick-robinson.html

P.S. Did you see my comments on the ID post that Will links too in the post above?

[...] of the Year’ in the Comment Awards announced this morning. As Will Straw points out on LeftFootForward, Robinson only posted eight blogs in the whole of July. One of the other nominees in this category, [...]

The case against ‘Blogger of the Year’ Nick Robinson : http://wik.io/vDiRN

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I saw about this on Robbinson’s Newslog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2010/10/last_nights_six_oclock_news.html

For me, freedom to protest is all well and good, but I think they crossed the line.

Someone likes Nick Robinsons but who? http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/10/the-case-against-blogger-of-the-year-nick-robinson/

I don’t know why LFF allow Iain Dale a mention on this blog. The man is a oaf and a loon, who spends most of his time attacking ben bradshaw.