Whistleblowing blogs list disappointment
Cision, the public relations database and monitoring people, recently published a list of the top ten whistleblowing blogs. And what a disappointment.
To be fair there are some a important blogs on the list, like Guido Fawkes and Pickled Politics. But I’d question whether these are true whistleblowers.
Sure a whistleblowing civil servant might leak some stuff to Guido or Pickled Politics, but I’d expect a whistleblowing blog to come from the source.
And I’d expect a whistleblowing blogger to have had some impact. So one does wonder how Biased BBC got to be at number three.
Back in 2005, I kind of blew the whistle on this outfit having caught them fiddling their website statistics to get into another chart.
I’ve not visited them for a while, but was hardly surprised to see the usual far right nonsense prominent on their front page. Today we learn that the BBC has reported the World Cup in South Africa has been a success, not because it has been, but because the BBC is pro-ANC.
Fortunately, but not surprisingly, Biased BBC has yet to have an impact on the BBC’s coverage of anything. As I wrote in 2005, ‘Biased BBC: blogging continuously since 2002 and not one accusation substantiated.’
Comments (One comment)
Hi Stephen,
Sorry to hear that you are disappointed with the Whistleblowing ranking. We were looking at UK blogs that expressed and/or exposed opinions on ‘wrongdoings’ in an organisation, and then trying to measure the likely influence of these sites as far as we can through strictly quantitative analysis. (This is the case for all our blog rankings). We’re (currently, at least) making no subjective judgement of the quality of these blogs.
Please let me know if you have any blogs you would recommend you could enter them here http://bit.ly/a9wmYX. I am more than happy to revise the list if there are blogs which belong in the long list that are not already there.
Best Regards,
Sabina
Sabina Rosander / July 13th, 2010, 10:18 am / #
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