As any of you who’ve been following the JIBA slug fest between Aussie Dave and myself here will know, I’ve been pointing out inconsistencies, self-dealing and bias in the Awards for a few weeks now. Now it’s come to my attention that another contention of Dave’s may be unreliable at best.
The blog that never [...]
Aussie Dave, august founder of the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards, has quaint notions of reciprocity. As I wrote in my last post, he sent me an e-mail which essentially called me a “dickhead.” Yet he’s now written me another e-mail in which he wags his finger at me for violating his privacy [...]
Read full post...The Jerusalem Post is the media sponsor of the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards. I’ve written in the past about the overload (90-95%) of right-wing pro-Israel blogs nominated in JIBA’s political categories. I’ve also written critically of the Jerusalem Post’s involvement in the program. Today, I’d like to ask why the Jerusalem [...]
Read full post...DR, one of my trusty readers has pointed me to this interesting confession by Aussie Dave that he’s a bit peeved at bloggers who are distorting his purposes in creating the JIB Awards. Jesus’ General of course comes in for his share of opprobrium because he has the effrontery to suggest that his readers [...]
Read full post...I’ve raised quite a big stink among conservative Jewish and Israeli bloggers (and some who swear, ahem, that they’re LIBERAL) about the right-wing imbalance in the JIB Award competition. I feel a bit like a reverse Sally Field at the Academy Awards: “Oh, you hate me; you really hate me!” Really it was [...]
Read full post...I haven’t yet gotten Aussie Dave to answer many of my questions about JIB Award procedures here. But he has been exchanging e mails with me. And they raise more questions in my mind than they answer.
First, poor Dave thinks I’ve accused him of corruption:
The point is you come out in public and [...]
After publishing my critique of the JIB Awards competition last night, it seems I struck a raw nerve among many of the right-wing bloggers whose material was quoted here. They came at me with both barrels blazing in the comment thread.
After publishing the post, I also asked the Jerusalem Post to comment on it. [...]
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