Comments on: Have The Guardian just rigged their readers’ poll?

By: Colum Paget

Colum Paget — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:58:11 +0000

# The irony is that had they not excluded Jodie Marie and Karnataka,
# they wouldnt have have ended up with an all-male top five. So much
# for the diversity The Guardian prides itself in.

Well, this lines up interestingly along your other post about the Guardian accusing the Triple J top 100 of being too white and male, doesn’t it? Did the person who wrote that article mention that the Guardian had deliberately blocked women from it’s list? No?

What does one call assassins who accuse assassins, anyway?

Colum

By: David Meadows

David Meadows — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:40:06 +0000

Sixteen….thousand….? Wow. Not using facebook myself, I assumed there would be only be small percentage of fans who did use it.

By: Jax Hodgkinson

Jax Hodgkinson — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:21:35 +0000

16,769 likes on the Karnataka Facebook page….. not that many fans David? Think again
PaulE I agree with you…we just shared the link on the Karnataka fan page…the way we and other fans do when it’s our favourite band….whoever they might be….

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:16:39 +0000

My hypothesis is still that, once they realised they’d been pranked with “Tinker’s Mitten”, somebody went through the list and struck off every name they’d never heard off, without bothering to do any basic research.

Everyone reading this blog knows who Karnataka are. I’d never heard of Jodie Marie before, but it took me about a minute to find out she’s real enough to have a verified Twitter account. Twitter don’t give those away to two-men-and-a-dog pub acts.

Guardian journalists do give the impression that live in a world where the music they’re spoon-fed by major-label PRs is all that exists. The ignore the obviously commercial stuff in order to appear edgy and relevent, but there’s still a huge amount out there that’s not on their radar screens. And when any of this music dares to irrupt into their closed little world, they cry foul.

By: PaulE

PaulE — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:57:54 +0000

Are people not allowed to discuss these polls on social media ? That seems certain to produce votes for one album at around the same time from lots of people. How can that voting pattern be evidence of malpractice ?

By: David Meadows

David Meadows — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:54:19 +0000

“This might be because The Guardian got their name wrong, or”

*double-checks which newspaper it is*

*draws obvious conclusion*

There is no “or”

By: David Meadows

David Meadows — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:52:06 +0000

The other way too look at this of course is that Karnataka don’t have *that* many fans on Facebook, and if it’s enough to upset the poll it siggests tiny (in national newspaper terms) numbers are voting overall. So how worthwhile is the exercise?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:46:10 +0000

Not sure quite what’s “street” about Sufjan Stevens and “Father John Misty”. More like a word beginning in H and ending in “-ipster”.

By: Stuart Black

Stuart Black — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:56:06 +0000

And the award for most desperate attempt by privately educated white men to appear ‘street’ goes to The Guardian for their choice of best album of 2015.