Original sentence: The Webby Awards is an international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites, presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences since 1996
Edited sentence: "There is nothing 'top' about the Webbys," wrote Gawker Media impresario Nick Denton, calling them a "scam" with awards "bought by contestants, who are charged application and attendance fees.Due to the fact that website participants have to pay to be judged, and pay to attend their own awards ceremony, The Webby Awards are widely criticized as being a Who's Who scam,.The Chicago Tribune cites:.The Webby Awards are a pay-to-enter international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites, presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences since 1996.While the Webby's send out fliers to website owners, claiming to be "the Oscars of the Internet", a core problem remains that the Webbys do not include a vast majority of websites, and therefor are secluded into only awarding websites that have paid to be judged