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February 2009 
Being informed.
Posted on May 22nd, 2008
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wrensis
wrensis
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
- Mark Twain
If Mark Twain were with us today I am absolutely certain he would read blogs. His facination with people and the way they think would have left him no other choice. I read blogs, it is a habit I acquired slowly as the threat of war increased after 9/11. Previously I had only read newspapers, magazines and articles. I started advocacy by contacting various government officials and hounding congressional offices with what I felt were unjust governmental decsions. At least one staff of my current Senator has come to addressing me by my name. She is very polite and has at times even been kind enough to point out I am not alone in my struggles to get my elected officials to listen. ....but I stray
My early blog reads were a list of sites that provided measured insight into what what was really happening in regards to Iraq, Afghanistan and the "war on terror" and the decisions of our government. I have sources I trust that have given complete and detailed information ignored by mainstream media because the truth was complicated and did not fit in a 30 second sound byte.. I disseminated the most urgent to a group of people I had collected over the years thru email contacts. The subject matter was eclectic and eventually led to hard choices of how many were really important. Over the past few years I had tried to simplfy the process but ended up reading over 45 RSS feeds a day, sometimes more than one time a day when the fur was flying. Early this year my heatlth took a serious hit and the project stopped. I am now recovered and have continued the reads for my own curiosity. The curiosity I think I would have shared with Mark Twain.
After many years of what seemed like a total immersion baptism I have come to a conclusion. They start out being about the news, they are intent and make every effort to be factual. Sadly they end up being more about the blogger than the events.. Not all blogs, not all bloggers, but a good many have succumbed to taking their place in history as an important contributor. Oh to be Woodruff and Bernstein.
This fateful election has polarized the blogosphere. What was gown to be our newest and best source of truth has become less informative. Many bloggers became the Fox news of the Democratic party. Many lost the focus that made them experts in their field. Most just tire of the daily grind of trying to get someone, anyone to recognize the depth of the rampant insanity that grips this country. It is an impossible task to address the speed at which events are related.
I have started to blog, not to be read, but to be reasoned. To learn perspective and balance and generosity to those who disagree. Most of all to regain my sense of humor. You just have to have a Mark Twain's sense of humor.
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
If Mark Twain were with us today I am absolutely certain he would read blogs. His facination with people and the way they think would have left him no other choice. I read blogs, it is a habit I acquired slowly as the threat of war increased after 9/11. Previously I had only read newspapers, magazines and articles. I started advocacy by contacting various government officials and hounding congressional offices with what I felt were unjust governmental decsions. At least one staff of my current Senator has come to addressing me by my name. She is very polite and has at times even been kind enough to point out I am not alone in my struggles to get my elected officials to listen. ....but I stray
My early blog reads were a list of sites that provided measured insight into what what was really happening in regards to Iraq, Afghanistan and the "war on terror" and the decisions of our government. I have sources I trust that have given complete and detailed information ignored by mainstream media because the truth was complicated and did not fit in a 30 second sound byte.. I disseminated the most urgent to a group of people I had collected over the years thru email contacts. The subject matter was eclectic and eventually led to hard choices of how many were really important. Over the past few years I had tried to simplfy the process but ended up reading over 45 RSS feeds a day, sometimes more than one time a day when the fur was flying. Early this year my heatlth took a serious hit and the project stopped. I am now recovered and have continued the reads for my own curiosity. The curiosity I think I would have shared with Mark Twain.
After many years of what seemed like a total immersion baptism I have come to a conclusion. They start out being about the news, they are intent and make every effort to be factual. Sadly they end up being more about the blogger than the events.. Not all blogs, not all bloggers, but a good many have succumbed to taking their place in history as an important contributor. Oh to be Woodruff and Bernstein.
This fateful election has polarized the blogosphere. What was gown to be our newest and best source of truth has become less informative. Many bloggers became the Fox news of the Democratic party. Many lost the focus that made them experts in their field. Most just tire of the daily grind of trying to get someone, anyone to recognize the depth of the rampant insanity that grips this country. It is an impossible task to address the speed at which events are related.
I have started to blog, not to be read, but to be reasoned. To learn perspective and balance and generosity to those who disagree. Most of all to regain my sense of humor. You just have to have a Mark Twain's sense of humor.
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
- Mark Twain
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