It's been 3 years since I started this blog, in part in protest of biased coverage in the MSM, local and otherwise. Here's one of my earliest efforts on Illinois, as Blago was just starting his successful 2006 reelection campaign.
As my friend Tom Mannis at the newly revamped Chicago News Bench reminded me, internet news has now overtaken print and is second only to TV as a news source. The online alternative the Chicago Daily Observer gets a new look as well. Among the young internet rivals TV, and I would imagine this will only accelerate. I still listen to talk radio for a few shows, but it's while I'm blogging. I usually just watch one cable news show a day. I still subscribe to print newspapers, but the recycling bin fills up fast. I do like scanning the print pages though.
The Sun Times reports the Tribune is looking to outsource its foreign reporting to the Washington Post, while the Sun Times looks to outsource some of its workforce overseas. Locally, some of the suburban newspapers, the real estate rags, (who often have censored letters to the editor and local news) have been closed down.
I don't know how this will all end up, but I intend to keep blogging. And I have a few ads on my site now.
Many thanks to my son, who encouraged me to start this blog, and to John Ruberry, Marathon Pundit, my blogger mentor, as well as Bill Baar and Diane at ResPublica, who linked early. I am also very appreciative of RealClearPolitics Tom Bevan's encouraging words early on.
Current kudos to my friend Mick, Anatreptic, who invited me to blog over there.
Finally, I blogged over at BlogHer for a while, but they threw me out as a "bomb-thrower", and I wasn't moderate enough for the LadyBlog at Culture 11, so that didn't last long. But during the election season I was invited to be among the top 100 pundits by new site PoliticsHome, which looks to continue during the era of The One.
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