Iain Dale has the results of a ComRes survey of 151 MPs (undertaken back in April-May this year) to find out which journalists and which bloggers they most respect. Here are the findings:
Flattered as we are to come in third – and delighted as we are that the blogs which come in first and second are both run by Lib Dems – if there are any Lib Dem MPs reading this post, may we urge you to visit the Lib Dem Blogs aggregator regularly to get an even better idea of the party’s blogging talent? I’m sure that will help you populate the last two places in the table.
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Clearly we can cut the number of MPs if they all have enough time to plough through the tiresome threads on politicalbetting.
All I can say is that the Lib Dem MPs who retweet my blogposts on occasions were obviously too busy to take part in the survey.
Next week: The three Lib Dem MPs that bloggers respect
Wot, no Irfan? 🙂
No blogs 4 and 5? Surely some mistake?
Atropos: I asked ComRes about that, and they said it’s because of the small sample size for Lib Dem MPs (they didn’t survey them all), there wasn’t enough data to go beyond rating the first three blogs.
Looking at the print journalists column I feel a bit like the Duke of Wellington did when he had the list of ministers in Derby’s new government read out to him: “Who? Who?” he shouted, as he didn’t recognise any of the names.
I recognise Michael White (of the Guardian) by name (wasn’t he the one who got into an argument with Iain Dale when he – Mr White – said Caroline Flint had had “a hissy fit”?) but I can’t recall reading anything that he’s written, though I do read the Guardian occasionally. And I’m afraid I recognise none of the other print journalists’ names. Where do they write?
In contrast, I recognise, and have seen/heard the top four broadcast journalists. I wonder what this says about media penetration to Britain’s yoof? 😉
P.S. Iain (or should that be Ian?) managed to misspell Lynne (not Lynn!) Featherstone’s name…
Hilarious that his blog is most respected by Labour MPs. Does this fortell mass defections after the election?