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Gerry Hassan in Top Scottish Blog Vote

Gerry Hassan

February 2nd 2010

The Scottish Blog awards today gave their verdict on the best journalist and mainstream blogs in Scotland http://scottishroundup.co.uk/2010/02/02/top-journalists-mainstream-media-blogs/ putting me in an honourable third place, behind Alex Massie of The Spectator and with the winner Joan McAlpine -  with Go Lassie Go, a site whose praises I was only singing last week!

As a bit of a novice at this and just beginning to find my feet I am a bit chuffed to find myself in third place. That’s like having a proper hit single in the days when you used to be able to have one! Fascinating to see whom I am ahead of in terms of Scottish heavyweights, Iain Macwhirter (no. 4), Brian Taylor (no. 5), Lesley Riddoch (no. 8), and Douglas Fraser (no. 10).

These are all big hitters and either current or ex-BBC Scotland staffers, and perhaps a bit establishment orientated and predictable in their views; Taylor for example is BBC Scotland’s main Political Editor and his blog, ‘Blether with Brian’ has its fans, but I have always thought it does not say very much of interest or controversy because you have to be like that working for the Beeb, and also because Taylor is someone with fairly anodyne views about most politics. Read the rest of this entry »