Aug 17, 2009
No More Fishbowl DC ‘Hottest Media Types’ Contest
One of the silliest local internet traditions has come to an end. On Friday, D.C. media watchblog Fishbowl DC announced it was killing its annual “Hottest Media Types” contest. Which is all well and good, considering every version for the last several years was won by whichever nominee benefited from the best automatic voting bot. In its place, however, we’re getting the Fishbowl DC Summer Superlatives, which come in the form of these ten…
Aug 05, 2008
DCist Not Hot Enough for Fishbowl DC List
Fishbowl DC released its annual Hottest D.C. Media Types list today. Angela Valdez thinks there are an awful lot of white guys in there. It’s definitely true, but it’s also true that are also an awful lot of white guys who work in media in D.C. and who are vain enough to nominate themselves. We too would like to see more diversity in newsrooms and on silly online hott-or-not contests, but our main concern at…