Being a bit behind in my reading, as usual, with piles to the left of me and piles to the right of me, I have just completed my November 2008 issue of The Atlantic and was moved to this blog by Andrew Sullivan's article, "Why I Blog," available at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog/4 and worth reading. Sullivan is enormously persuasive as to the immediacy of blogging and I have bitten. His Blog is at http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/ and he is as bright as I hope to be!
There are brilliant people out there and there is much to be shared. Blogging is not the newspaper and my hopes are (perhaps very unrealistically) that newspapers will survive and thrive. I read the New York Times daily (in hard copy) and the local paper wherever I am. Sullivan calls the newspapers "yesterday's news" and he is, of course, correct. But the depth of the newspaper reporting, again per Sullivan, is for those who want more than just the headlines and the opinions.
What I do hope is that there will be activity and responses to this blog but for the life of me, I cannot figure out, even from Sullivan, what makes that happen.
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