Yeah, i realize this is a blog. But blogging sucks. The blogosphere is bringing down the quality of writing put out by newspapers, magazines and even books.
Every damn article includes something about the author. If I wanted to know about you, stupid journalist, I would read a column, not a new story.
Newspapers used to have editorial staff who made certain that writers chose good quality stories to write about, and proof readers who made certain that typos, misprints and bad grammar were stopped before they went to press. Now in this world of instant publication, the written word has become sloppy, messy, icky, ughy, crummy, cruddy, yuckiness. And yes, I really could have used an editor and a proof reader for that last sentence, and probably for this one and the next one too.
Ironically, good writing is sorely lacking at a time good writing is needed. This whole huge web is waiting to be filled with writing, thoughts, questions, learnings, and more, just at the moment when writing is being downgraded into scribbles on a blog and articles are being sold for pennies on amazon turk. While public figures are deriding a liberal arts education and condemning those who would go to college for the sake of learning! horrors to the English literature majors! , at the time when those same public figures are bemoaning the quality of the work force! and corporate America is looking for people who can....wait for it....write!
Please do forgive the run on sentences and exclamation points. My editor and proof reader were outsourced and the new ones are asleep when I'm awake. What's a blogger to do?
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