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 My blog was filled up. I'm too lazy to clean it out. So I started a new one. |
| With so many newspapers vanishing and magazines shrinking or publishing less often, where do the columnists show their work? Here are today's Lewis Grizzard, Andy Rooney, Art Buchwald, Paul Harvey, or Dave Barry or even Erma Bombeck? For that matter, where do people go to read about other people's problems, like Ann Landers, or Dear Abby, or Miss Manners? Southern Living has Grumpy, but he doesn't appeal to the general public, only gardeners. Is the blog or a podcast the only alternative? Of course, Paul Harvey also had a radio show. Andy Rooney had a weekly spot on 60 Minutes. Rooney was full of opinions and claimed that writing made him happier than anything else. If you don't have a big name and get a major syndication, where do you express yourself and get compensated like those who have already had an audience and passed on. I worked with a guy once who had a sarcastic view of everything. We joked about running an advice column together. We would have real problems; he would respond first with a surly, caustic answer, which was typical for him. Then my softer response would follow with a more practical and realistic view. We waited too long. People go to the Internet for answers they can't trust and our state has almost no newspapers left. What's left for those of us who would like to "one up" the humorists and columnists we like? |
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