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Truthdig Wins Webby Award for Best Political Blog

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Posted on May 4, 2010
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All of us here at Truthdig are honored to announce that we’ve won the Webby Award jury prize for this year’s Best Political Blog. The fact that our fellow nominees included sites we visit daily like The Huffington Post, The Economist, The New Yorker and The Atlantic only makes this news all the more humbling and gratifying, but most important, we’re happy to share this award with our community of readers—our biggest asset and the reason we keep doing what we do. And now ... the champagne!

Click here for a complete list of nominees and winners.

And thanks to one of our favorite news operations, the BBC, for the name check.

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By Shenonymous, May 6, 2010 at 3:10 pm Link to this comment

As a continuous user of TD since 2007, Truthdig has been a
home base to rant, vent, bloviate (my specialty) and rebut,
but but but and rebutt.  My best curtsy and congratulations. 
Thank you for working at being excellent:  You have succeeded.

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By Leefeller, May 5, 2010 at 2:30 pm Link to this comment

Truthdig is freedom of speech personified,.....
except they should tax imbeciles, morons and the
village idiots sponsored by the contingent for taking
space.

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By Cynthia, May 5, 2010 at 12:30 pm Link to this comment
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Congratulations! 

“Easy reading is damn hard writing”—Nathaniel Hawthorne.

(NYCartist, try clicking on the here in the sentence rather than the whole sentence.)

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By Ibhdez, May 5, 2010 at 7:34 am Link to this comment
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Congratulations - excellent, well written articles

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By rollzone, May 4, 2010 at 9:14 pm Link to this comment

hello. you are welcome, as your family compiles good raw data; and just because everybody has an *$$hole, you demonstrate that you don’t have to act alike one: and that’s my opinion. (opinions are just like *$$holes: everybody’s got one, and both usually produce shit). congratulations, and bottom’s up!

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By Inherit The Wind, May 4, 2010 at 6:50 pm Link to this comment

Ed Harges, May 4 at 4:37 pm #

Apparently antiwar.com wasn’t even nominated. So I don’t know how seriously to
take this award.

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Outstanding! TD won it DESPITE posts from ED, Robert, omop and “The Contingent”.

Must be the hilarious comedy by Leefeller, the brilliant rebuttals by Shenonymous and even Shingo.  And, of course, the clear, unimpeachable insights and analysis of….yours truly!

(Seriously, TD—-Congratulations.)

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By PEggy Manfredi, May 4, 2010 at 5:41 pm Link to this comment
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Congratulations.

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By Tim, May 4, 2010 at 5:40 pm Link to this comment
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This is definitely well deserved. I stumbled on this site three years ago and I feel that no where else can I find an as enlightening and challenging commmenter community.

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By OzarkMichael, May 4, 2010 at 4:18 pm Link to this comment

Congrats to Truthdig, and to the people who participate.

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By Ed Harges, May 4, 2010 at 11:37 am Link to this comment

Apparently antiwar.com wasn’t even nominated. So I don’t know how seriously to
take this award.

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By William W. Wexler, May 4, 2010 at 9:36 am Link to this comment

This is one time they got it right.  It’s hard-earned and well-deserved.

Congrats.

-Wexler

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By acheslow, May 4, 2010 at 9:17 am Link to this comment

Congratulations. I’ve only recently started following your site, but I can see that this is a well-deserved award.

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By felicity, May 4, 2010 at 9:17 am Link to this comment

Good job.  My opinion, but I have wondered if NOT having a ‘rating’ of comments by fellow commenters results in comments being less sensational, less argumentative, less crowd-pleasing and finally more to the point and informative.  Just a thought.

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By NYCartist, May 4, 2010 at 9:09 am Link to this comment

Bravo.  I am unable to click to read the rest of the winners.  Problem?

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