What a difference a year makes. Last year, Boulder Weekly came in dead last in the newspaper category of Jan Scott's annual media awards. Same thing the year before that. This year we rocketed straight to number one. "Amazing," Scott said on his show Wednesday night, "just last year I hated them. Well, I still hate them. But they did do a cover story on me and Wayne's Word featured me, so I'm not stupid. One blow job deserves another."
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He went on to say "Boulder Weekly just keeps getting better. The paper seems to have found the heart of Boulder."
The Daily Camera was knocked out of their two-year reign as the town's best because, according to Scott, " thay don't capture the heart of Boulder. They're the subject of good-old-girlism."
The Colorado Daily came in third because Pam White won't publish any of Scott's letters.
And the Boulder Planet came in dead last. Go figure.
Scott also ranked Boulder's radio and TV fixtures. In radio, KVCU, the revamped CU station took the top prize. "It's really improved in a year," Scott said. "The music is snappy."
KGNU took second even though they're "commies and socialists. They're honest about who they are."
KBCO took third, "even though they're no longer a Boulder station."
Last place? The new kid in town: KWAB, "That spit-wad 1490."
Scott must have had an ax to grind with the new station with a social vision, because he had nothing but bad things to say: "They often refer to us here as up there in Boulder. I see this as a corporate exploitation of Boulder. No one listens. They're KGNU wannabes."
And for the best television in Boulder?
"It's me."
--Joe Miller