Via: Idolator
Earlier this week, Idolator announced its plans to fill the void left by the Village Voice's long-running and well-respected Pazz and Jop survey with the inaugural Idolator Jackin' Pop Critics Poll. While it remains unclear if they knew that Pazz and Jop was never actually dead, it didn't seem to matter much: they figured that without Robert Christgau editing, Pazz and Jop was effectively finished.
Well, it didn't take long for the VV's parent company to strike back. Village Voice Media has banned Michaelangelo Matos, the editor of Jackin' Pop, from writing for the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages--the paper at which he started--and is furthermore not allowing any of its writers to participate in the Idolator poll. Pazz and Jop is alive and kicking, and kicking hard!
So will these competing cultural surveys cause widespread crises of faith in music writers and editors alike? No telling yet, but the corporate interests involved virtually guarantee that someone's feelings are going to get hurt; before it's all said and done, we're pretty sure somebody's glasses are going to get (proverbially) smashed.
P.S. An interesting tidbit courtesy of the New York Times: Robert Christgau will be submitting to both polls.