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To be honest, I don’t know how I want to use this blog. If I want to use it at all, it would be to spout off about Chicago sports teams. I don’t want to throw my political opinion out on the Web. I don’t want to become some social activist or any activist for that matter.
I am still not sold on blogs. I accept them. I read them. I like learning about them and speculating about them, but I’m not a huge fan of writing them. I don’t know, maybe by the time I move on from CUNY my tune will change. I think they reveal too much, like that old diary that falls into the wrong hands. Who knows if my politics, love life, career, friends or any tangible aspect of my life will be the same in 10, 20 years. Once I write something, it’s permanent. That’s what draws me to journalism: actively participating in history. I also like the safeguards in place at a paper, such as editors, which I desperately need (any one in Svoboda’s class should agree.)
So that’s my answer: I don’t know. If I have to write one of my own choosing, it’s going to be about the Bears, Bulls, Cubs and perhaps the White Sox. But that’s really all I would want to use my blog for.
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The Bears would be a good topic this week.
Comment by Danny October 4, 2006 @ 3:56 am[...] As for a second blog, I agree with a few of my classmates who have indicated that an additional blog shouldn’t have to be about our neighborhood beats. I understand the argument of having neighborhood blogs, including adding value to some of our Craft stories and creating a dialogue between us and the community we’re covering, but I think this is an opportunity to revel in the form’s flexibility. We are in the midst of acquiring a great number of skills–both editorial and technological–why not use them to cover and write about something that we are passionate about, an issue or topic that we don’t necessarily get to examine while bogged down in Craft and Legal and Ethical Issues assignments? [...]
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