• Ben Swann currently BARELY in FIRST place for a Shorty Award

    If you have a twitter, then you know what to do, so get to it!

    The #Journalist Shorty Award and nominate Ben by his twitter username: @Fox19BenSwann
    http://shortyawards.com/category/journalist

    Producer and Host of Reality Check, Anchor at Fox 19. Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.


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    1. sailingaway's Avatar
      sailingaway -
      Vote him up! I'll tweet it too!

      His twitter name is @Fox19BenSwann - you need that to nominate him! and you have to say WHY he should win!
    1. sailingaway's Avatar
      sailingaway -
      I think people stopped because they weren't validating his account for the LONGEST time....so votes weren't counting.
    1. FSP-Rebel's Avatar
      FSP-Rebel -
      voted and rt'd
    1. Confederate's Avatar
      Confederate -
      Quote Originally Posted by FSP-Rebel View Post
      voted and rt'd
      Same here.
    1. TomtheTinker's Avatar
      TomtheTinker -
      Bumppp
    1. dannno's Avatar
      dannno -
      WOohoo!!
    1. sailingaway's Avatar
      sailingaway -
      It is updating slowly maybe? It only says 96 now.....
    1. Lucille's Avatar
      Lucille -
      It must be. He's up to 98 now (No. 1 got one more vote).

      Remember!:

      Vote with a tweet. Votes must have a reason after "because..." or they won't count!
      http://shortyawards.com/category/journalist
    1. sailingaway's Avatar
      sailingaway -
      Number 1 might be ok, she just is just not Ben. I understand she goes after NDAA at least. So I wouldn't call her names unless I knew her, although I want to beat her vote count, obviously.
    1. Lucille's Avatar
      Lucille -
      Oh her! She's not so bad. She's the one who blew the whistle on CNN's censorship too.
    1. BSU kid's Avatar
      BSU kid -
      Remember the final award is given, based not just on the vote, but also based on other factors as well.
    1. sailingaway's Avatar
      sailingaway -
      Bump for more votes!!
    1. sailingaway's Avatar
      sailingaway -
      Quote Originally Posted by BSU kid View Post
      Remember the final award is given, based not just on the vote, but also based on other factors as well.
      Yeah, and his account wasn't verified for the longest time, we have to make up ground. Here are the qualifications, though, and I think he is pretty good with social media:
      The winner will be selected based upon the number of nominations they’ve received, the impact and creativity of their tweets, and the level of innovation in their use of social media as judged by the Shorty Awards Real-Time Academy. Only those who have been verified as a journalist by Muck Rack are eligible for this Award.
      Or is it saying WE have to be innovative in our nomination tweets? I think I'll find that clip of him interviewing Obama about NDAA and tweet it with a nomination.....
    1. sailingaway's Avatar
      sailingaway -
      OK, I tweeted another nomination using Ben Swann's Obama interview where he asked about NDAA FIRST OF ANYONE, and about the Kill list etc. Obama was expecting a low key 'local paper' interview, I suspect.

      https://twitter.com/usernamenuse/sta...65174829985792
    1. kcchiefs6465's Avatar
      kcchiefs6465 -
      Quote Originally Posted by sailingaway View Post
      OK, I tweeted another nomination using Ben Swann's Obama interview where he asked about NDAA FIRST OF ANYONE, and about the Kill list etc. Obama was expecting a low key 'local paper' interview, I suspect.

      https://twitter.com/usernamenuse/sta...65174829985792
      Ben Swann interviewed Obama on his secret kill list? Where tf was I when all this happened? +rep for the mention. I'm off to see the epicness that is sure to happen.
    1. Cleaner44's Avatar
      Cleaner44 -
      Quote Originally Posted by sailingaway View Post
      Voted and retweeted!
    1. SpreadOfLiberty's Avatar
      SpreadOfLiberty -
      How do we get him an Emmy?
    1. jmdrake's Avatar
      jmdrake -
      Voted.
    1. Lucille's Avatar
      Lucille -
      Lyon: 234
      Pool: 144
      Swann: 134

      I find it impossible to believe that we can't scrape up another 100 or so lousy votes to get him to tie for 1st!


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