The nature of blogging is to be an outcast that occasionally gets attention from the mainstream media. I write critically, sometimes through fiction and often through rhetoric, and that rhetoric can sometimes dominate the article.
Bare with me on this, because it takes some indirect explaining.
The mainstream media will rarely admit to reading a specific blog, but when you start to hear things in the mainsteam media that sound similar to something you wrote, you start to wonder if it is just a coincidence.
I don't hate the mainstream media per se, because in fact, most of my sources are mainstream media outlets. I tire though of the blow-hards that can be found in talk radio, sports, pop culture, politics, etc.
And I don't hate, because if I did hate, I wouldn't bother. I only ask questions of those who I think have the intelligence to answer. And I only criticize those who I think have the ability to change.
Who am I? An American, that's who.
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