Much grumbling on Twitter today about Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, being awarded the prize of blogger of the year at the the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards.
Robinson, beat Paul Waugh of the Evening Standard and Melanie Phillips. Iain Dale lamented the shortlist for this year’s awards earlier this year for excluding any independent bloggers and now Will Straw has made the case against Robinson winning on Left Foot Forward.
No matter what you think of Nick Robinson as a political reporter (many seem to like him) he is not a natural blogger and sometimes will go for weeks without writing anything making it appear that his blogging is an after thought to his TV work.
Straw’s main charges are spot on: that Robinson’s posts lack detail and contain virtually no links to other sites (other than the BBC).
Oh and this is Robinson getting very annoyed with an anti-war protestor. It’s quite funny. Make sure to ignore the ranting anti-war slides after the footage.