tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post2801439081353814480..comments2023-08-25T18:09:09.834-07:00Comments on Wrote By Rote: My Own Personal NewspaperArlee Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-69808222005525393542015-06-28T14:03:38.698-07:002015-06-28T14:03:38.698-07:00Oh write on! I couldn't wait to be able to rea...Oh write on! I couldn't wait to be able to read what had so engrossed the grownups every Sunday! Sure I enjoyed the funnies for awhile, but there was always that thrill of the unknown pages :-) Never did work on the school newspaper but they 'published' some of my creative writing work. As enjoyable as your blogs are you'd have a terrific newspaper! But you're right, times have changed. It's hard to read something you haven't already seen on the TV or online newsfeeds.diedre Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12772557495518846226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-3189533420481599422015-06-27T16:17:07.446-07:002015-06-27T16:17:07.446-07:00Karen, I think newspapers will have to find ways o...Karen, I think newspapers will have to find ways of embracing blogging and similar mediums in order to keep up with future trends. I look at the blogs of most newspapers and see how they struggle and haven't managed to keep up in the same way as those in the regular blogging community. The newspaper age is definitely changing.<br /><br />Lee<br />Arlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-78567129313212853872015-06-27T16:14:23.021-07:002015-06-27T16:14:23.021-07:00Madilyn, but if you are providing news about yours...Madilyn, but if you are providing news about yourself or your commentary about things in our world you are providing a sort of journalistic service. We all usually have a goal of expanding our readership much like a regular publication would strive for.<br /><br />LeeArlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-80414457164161286422015-06-27T16:11:30.964-07:002015-06-27T16:11:30.964-07:00Robin, I agree about blogging being our personal m...Robin, I agree about blogging being our personal means to journalistic and editorial expression. There is so much potential to what we can do with it and having everything formatted in the blogging platforms gives it all an appearance of legitimacy. <br /><br />Lee<br />Arlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-51805882070171809802015-06-27T10:04:09.114-07:002015-06-27T10:04:09.114-07:00I could have written this post! I've been fasc...I could have written this post! I've been fascinated by newspapers for a very long time as well. When I had essays published in a newspaper it was one of the highlights of my writing career. I always thought it would be great to have a regular column in a newspaper. But now blogging has replaced papers in many ways. Newspapers are struggling to survive while blogging is thriving.Karen Jones Gowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11378428503220197256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-12670356869146783312015-06-27T08:36:31.064-07:002015-06-27T08:36:31.064-07:00I never wrote my own newspapers, though I did once...I never wrote my own newspapers, though I did once make a bunch of flyers explaining why I would be the best choice for ruler of the world. :)<br />I took a journalism class in high school and we had to cut articles and create articles, which was pretty fun but I never got over the anxiety of standing in front of the class to present.<br />When I pick newspapers up for coupons, usually I read the local and arts sections. I think blogging can be like newspapers, own personal ones, but I don't really use mine for it. Not really, I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-70924236457537842352015-06-27T07:28:57.989-07:002015-06-27T07:28:57.989-07:00Reading this post, I was thinking to myself, "...Reading this post, I was thinking to myself, "Lee would have loved journalism as a career." You are so interested in what people will read, why they read it, etc. And I can totally imagine Kid Lee making his own newspaper. <br /><br />In some ways, blogging is the new newspaper. Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14932408372240147454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-89436467666131217602015-06-27T06:53:54.064-07:002015-06-27T06:53:54.064-07:00Liza, I hate reading papers and other media online...Liza, I hate reading papers and other media online and usually avoid it. However I also stopped taking the L.A. Times because it annoys me so. I get the Sunday paper and that actually gets me through the week. I too love the medium, but so much of it is changing for the worse.<br /><br />Lee<br />Arlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-46556386865079727692015-06-27T06:51:45.997-07:002015-06-27T06:51:45.997-07:00JoJo, I consider you fortunate having had that opp...JoJo, I consider you fortunate having had that opportunity to take journalism. We didn't have that class in our high school and I wanted to take it. I should have gotten on the school paper staff, but I guess I was afraid or something.<br /><br />Your posts don't really end all that abruptly. Most stories in the paper do because if you think about it, anything that is not a feature story isn't really over yet anyway.<br /><br />Lee<br />Arlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-38354609252677826062015-06-27T06:45:55.741-07:002015-06-27T06:45:55.741-07:00I love newspapers too. I love the print medium. ...I love newspapers too. I love the print medium. It means so much more to me to hold it and flip through it and smell the ink. I read the newspaper at breakfast every morning, and on the days it arrives late and I have to read it online...I find the experience disappointing.Lizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16170701034715108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889973587380183147.post-1620524660340130652015-06-27T05:10:38.593-07:002015-06-27T05:10:38.593-07:00Only once in 5th grade we were assigned a project ...Only once in 5th grade we were assigned a project to make a magazine or something and mine was kind of based on Highlights Magazine that I loved in the dentist office. I absolutely dreaded current events in 6th grade. I loathed searching the paper and doing the presentations. I've always been more of a magazine person. In 11th grade I desperately wanted to take Chorus class esp. since they were going to Scotland and England but my mother forced me into Journalism. I hated every minute of it. I usually volunteered to go to the graphics dept to do the layout and printing. But I didn't like being assigned stories. I didn't like to write, and I didn't know how to end stories. That's the same problem I have now. If you notice, a lot of my blog posts end abruptly b/c I don't know how to end it.JoJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18165375435543044068noreply@blogger.com