I'M NOT A JOURNALIST BUT I DID

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The blogosphere is growing in Quincy and the UMRB generally. That's great. To paraphrase Josephus, it may change the political and/or journalistic landscape in our area.

But one has to ask: Do we really need four blogs which exist solely to critique local media coverage? If you count the U/G, which has commentators who seem to live for that purpose, that's five.

I'm not trained to practice Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine or journalism so you won't find that here. I have no particular quarrel with those who do. Still, you'd think they'd peel back the wallpaper of the reporting technique once in awhile and just address the substance of the matter more often. Apparently Whig-bashing and Gough-bashing will get your hit numbers up and I'm sure there's some deep meaning in that. Until I figure out that deep meaning, I'll talk about what's happening in the world and my pre-spun opinion of what it might mean. I know nothing about journalism. I'm neither taking up for the local news organizations for bashing them, just saying this page is not a useful source of analysis for that topic.

The citizen-journalists can have that field to themselves. In here, we'll just blog.