Thanks, I Think?

Published Oct. 16, 2008 at 4:24 a.m.

A big thank you to the editors at The Austin Chronicle, who gave me a Critic's Pick Award in this year's Best of Austin issue. The category for which I (perhaps ironically) won? "Best TV Reporter Who Can Write"...The write-up:

The sound-bite world of TV news can make the on-camera talent look a little superficial, but that's just image. When KVUE's Elise Hu isn't skillfully trimming down policy nuance for the idiot box, she's raising hell in her sometimes scathing, take-no-prisoners Political Junkie blog. She writes so well that she's good enough for print. (Just don't tell her she looks like former Council Member Jennifer Kim. She hates that.)

I asked Chronicle scribe Richard Whittaker whether this was an insult-wrapped-in-a-compliment, and he said it was the other way around. Snark aside, I thank the Chronicle most graciously for the recognition of my work on TV and here on the blog.

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