The website iwantmedia.com is conducting a poll for Media Person of the Year, and it turns out that among the nominees, along with Tina Fey, Arianna Huffington, Mel Karmazin, Jason Kilar, Rachel Maddow, Rupert Murdoch, Eric Schmidt, th Twitter Trio and Sam Zell is– me! Or at me, in the guise of The Laid-Off Journalist. Says the site in its touching nomination statement: “I Want Media stopped updating its Media Layoffs roundup page more than two years ago. Bad timing. Job cuts accelerated in 2008, as the economy tanked and more belt-tightening ensued. . . .Hollywood‘s striking writers won sympathy in 2007; will this be the year of The Laid-Off Journalist?” Just to be clear, if I am elected, I will be a gracious winner, and warmly credit all who made it possible: the bloated management at my company that sopped up resources, the ignorant advertisers who didn’t think a real circulation of three million and a readership of 10 million was worth investing in, and above all, America’s increasingly website-fixated readership, who believes that reading a website is exactly the same as reading a newspaper, a magazine or a book, items which to them seem as strange and dated as the plough. Thanks, guys! I couldn’t have done it without you. (By the way, to vote for me, click here.)
