{"id":21805,"date":"2011-08-17T05:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T10:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21805"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:31:58","slug":"dear-chris-cilizza-all-is-forgiven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21805","title":{"rendered":"Dear Chris Cilizza: All Is Forgiven"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0Chris Cilizza
\nFrom: Mitch Berg
\nRe: Durr.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cilizza:<\/p>\n

In the past, I have criticized your “best blogs” lists for being myopic assortments of blogs driven mostly by fanboy response.<\/p>\n

Then I saw “CBS Minnesota”‘s – that’d be WCCO’s – assortment of blogs in their “Most Valuable Blogger” awards.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t much care about the Dining, Sports, Entertainment, Heath or “Everything Else” sections – because I don’t read any of those categories, ever – I gotta say the “Local Affairs” selection is…<\/p>\n

…well,\u00a0\u00a0you be the judge<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In a state full of heavyweight blogs that actually make a difference, WCCO provides this list of blogs ranging from the unknown to “Cantina Band” who have only their liberalism in common…<\/p>\n

…ah, gotcha.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Mr. Cilizza, all is forgiven.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

MBerg<\/p>\n

I’ll count the hours ’til some bobbleheaded reject of a leftyblogger claims this article is “sour grapes”. \u00a0Untrue – I get more recognition than I need or deserve, already, from people that matter to me.<\/p>\n

It’s just a really weird list. \u00a0I have to wonder – was it compiled from nominees? (UPDATE: \u00a0It was. \u00a0Go figure – the Esme Murphy station has no conservative viewers, I guess…)<\/p>\n

And yeah, I know – Minnesota Brown <\/em>isn’t bad, and Bluestem Prairie <\/em>veers often enough into intellectual continence. \u00a0Just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0Chris Cilizza From: Mitch Berg Re: Durr. Mr. Cilizza: In the past, I have criticized your “best blogs” lists for being myopic assortments of blogs driven mostly by fanboy response. Then I saw “CBS Minnesota”‘s – that’d be WCCO’s – assortment of blogs in their “Most Valuable Blogger” awards. Now, I don’t much care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[436,249],"class_list":["post-21805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-esme-murphy","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21805"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21807,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions\/21807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}