City Brights blogger and SFist fave Zennie Abraham (who, inexplicably, is no longer a featured City Brights blogger and whose blog now must be dug up about six links deep) can't figure out why the Oscars aren't showing him a little respect as a member of the online press. In the past, he's gotten some sort of press credential to cover the Saturday before the Academy Awards in Los Angeles (or something), and this year he is shocked — SHOCKED — that he was not invited to apply for a credential, and thus far has not been able to score one. In the video above, and in this blog post, Zennie describes his daily reach, both for blogging and vlogging, and wonders aloud how the Academy could so thoughtlessly snub him. (We should note that while he cites getting 25,000 video views per day, this video in question, which has been up for three days, has only garnered 261 views on YouTube. But perhaps his metrics are coming from elsewhere.)
CORRECTION: Zennie contacted us to clarify that he was, as he explains in the video, invited by AMPAS to apply for a credential, only to be rejected later in what he feels was a discriminatory process. It appears there is some discrepancy between who they invite to apply and the 3,000 members of the press to whom they grant credentials.