Flashes of Panic

It might be a reach for me to call myself a “journalist,” but I did feel a lot of truth in Glenn Fleichman’s article in which he quotes Wonkette’s author (who I don’t generally read, being mostly apolitical) saying:

That’s why I started a blog, actually. Because I wanted to just write stuff without having to prove to an editor it was a good idea. If the only thing I get out of Wonkette is the ability to get editors to assign me stories without my having to sell the pitch, I will be happy.

Further along:

all the really successful/popular blogs are run by people who were already writing for a living, if not actual journalists—either professors or journalists, basically.

One wonders—strictly out of curiosity, of course—if I would have more than four readers here if I had already been writing “for a living” (which I will probably never do, for reasons similar to Glenn’s points about pitching.) Of course, in the long run, the difference between four readers and forty is really not significant.

Anyway, that’s an aside. The point is that I probably would write more (assuming I had time to do so) if I pitched more. And I don’t pitch much because I hate doing it. So I don’t write as much.

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