Please, mom . . .

Part of the point of this blog is to reach people who aren’t traditional newspaper subscribers.

While some people read the hard copy and online, others are firmly entrenched in one camp or the other.

My mother is clearly a newspaper-only kind of gal. Today, she e-mailed me the cartoon below with the words, “So true, so true.”

While my mother has always been the biggest supporter of my career, I might caution her that she shouldn’t throw stones at someone who blogs five days a week!

Pickles

  • contraryan

    My brother sent me the same cartoon today.

    I told him people who don’t understand mock.

  • sjkeathley

    A friend sent me the same cartoon because he knows I Twitter, blog and all those funny sounds. Isn’t it great?

  • jeffdrafttech

    You can explain to your mother that a good blog is no different than a newspaper, with the exception that you can interact with your readers.

    Tell your mom that her daughter is one of the main reasons business people in Wichita bother reading the Eagle. You won’t be telling a lie. Knowing about new business is very valuable to us, and getting updates ahead of print-publication has been a great way to increase its value.

    Remind her how the newspaper was once printed twice every day, and your blog is an opportunity to publish a “business afternoon edition,” when a second edition no longer makes financial sense in print.

  • LittleMonksGrill

    LOL,

    This was a great cartoon to show my mother on Mother’s Day :)

    Technology has changed so much in the past 25 years that I shudder to think how long it will take before “tweets” aren’t fast enough.

    Hopefully in 30 years or so I won’t have to explain to my kids about the good ole days of blogs and twitter and how slow everything was back in 2009 :)

  • fish

    The problem with all of this blogging is that bloggers tend to think of themselves as journalists, yet they are not held to the same standards as print journalists. You can say whatever you want in a blog, whether its true or not. The most popular place you can see this change taking place is with ESPN. Countless times over the last year their own reporters have reported stories that were most likely not true (Brett Favre anyone?) just so that they could “scoop” the blogosphere. It’s not fair to those of us who expect real news, 100% correct news, all of the time. The same laws should apply to bloggers that apply to print journalists.

  • Carrie Rengers

    Hey, Fish —

    As far as I know, the same rules DO apply to our blogs. I might be able to have a little more fun and a little bit more of a personal tone with my blog, but for the most part, it’s just like my column. I’m not simply posting information I hear. I still check it out. That’s not to say I won’t make a mistake every once in a while. Sadly, I am only human. But if you keep reading, I hope you’ll see that what I’m saying is true.

    Thanks,

    Carrie