...is an instant gratification art form. Myself, I try to put some thought into it, but then I'm a professional writer of many years who's also used to writing to a deadline. I wrote for radio and TV news for years, so instant gratification writing with some balance is possible for me.

Blogging is opinion journalism, so you're going to get more snark. And snark, frankly, seems to be what people want to read. On my local media news site, I have a bunch of apropos quotes, as I do on the front page here. One of them is from Hedda Hopper, the gossip columnist: "No one is interested in sweetness and light." That's a little extreme but it does speak fairly directly to human nature.

What you have to do is just find which bloggers "work" for you and let the others go. I try to keep TNH positive.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor