Quite the lofty goal for this post, but if the writers at We Have Beards are one thing, it’s arrogant. I mean confident.
My writing career started in college on the school newspaper. I like to pretend like I was a journalist, obviously I’m still pretending with this blog. Nevertheless, my love of newspapers started long ago. I still enjoy reading the newspaper today. That’s why it’s so heartbreaking to know that newspapers and magazines are slowly dying out. I know, I know, some of you might argue that they will never die. And they might not. I’m hopeful that they won’t. But the most important thing to me is not that the physical paper continue to exist, it’s that the quality of the reporting remain available to the masses.
I write a blog. Obviously it’s the greatest blog in the world, but I’m not winning a Peabody, and rightfully so. I don’t hold the “reporting” from We Have Beards up to the standards of the Wall Street Journal or The New York Times. My goal is to write a fun blog for discussing movies, music, literature and food. The great things in life.
As more and more people begin to replace their daily paper with bloggers like me as their news source, I begin to worry about the future of our country. And of course children like Ponijao. (She’s so effing cute!)
What I’m getting at is I have three ideas that I want to propose to save the papers, or at least delay the inevitable. Now, I know these ideas are brilliant, and I know that the big papers read this blog religiously, so if any paper decides to follow through with these ideas, you need to give me credit and some money. Just a little. I’m easy. Like really easy.
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