We love Wusta - a diverse city with a myriad of colors, incomes, and opinions. Unfortunately only two newspapers. The all clear sounded last week, thankfully WOMAG's annual Best of Worcester farce is over. The winners got their trophies, celebrated their popularity with free chow courtesy of WOMAG, and swore their allegiance to the cult of WOMAG. Oh Oh... I feel the ole bullshit antennae twitching again.
So how many years has it been since they began peddling that Best of Worcester scam - 5, maybe 6 years. How many categories are there now? Over a 100. Geepers, what haven’t they included. The only thing missing is Wusta's best pothole.
But hey, gotta give them credit for trying – using the poll to lure potential advertisers gullible enough to fall for their nonsense; figure it’s only a matter of time before WOMAG is 100% advertising - no content. Come to think of it, it already looks like an ad insert.
And there’s a first. After all those years WOMAG finally fessed up, perhaps in the interest of journalistic integrity (sumptin Wusta sure can use a lot more of), stated that “close to” 4,000 voters participated in its poll. Um… I got an issue with that. Based on a population of some 200,000 locals and transients (aka students), not to mention the folks out there in the boonies, all they got was “close to” 4,000 voters. Um… statistically speaking their premise is pretty questionable. But heck whatcha expect, WOMAG’s always been pretty loose with facts. And reality. Anyone know what they're smoking?
Okay, we appreciate the integrity thing, but what about the semantics? What is WOMAG really peddling – a popularity contest, so why not call it that - Wusta's "favorite". Semantically speaking “best of” denotes a qualitative distinction. For example take the best politician category (an oxymoron if there ever was one). Can’t for the life of me understand how one politician is better than another? They all suck. Some more than others.
Like a lotta folks, one wonders how many votes Wusta's "best councilor" ole Councilor Kate Toomey got? BTW according to WOMAG she’s won it four years in a row. Hard to believe, but hey this is Wusta, folks gravitate to mediocrity. And surprisingly she put that on her resume. Yup, you read that right - put it on her resume. I guess she wants to priss things up for the upcoming 15th Worcester battle.
So how many votes did ole Kate Toomey get - 50, maybe 60. Rumor has it that over the last 4 years her daughter’s WPI sorority sisters stuffed the ballot box and WOMAG’s crack cyber-sleuthing team didn’t catch it. No surprise there eh.
Since WOMAG is on an integrity kick, we sure would like to know how many votes each category and selection got - that’s called transparency. But there's a drawback, it’d expose how ludicrous the poll really is. As we've always said, another cruel joke perpetrated on the locals.
From the comments looks like WOMAG’s readers are on to them, seeing it for what it is – a scam.
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