tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post113293951620243382..comments2024-03-28T01:20:48.843-06:00Comments on The Michael Bane Blog: Shopping, and the Lust for LegitimacyMichael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-1133369178322410742005-11-30T09:46:00.000-07:002005-11-30T09:46:00.000-07:00Amen, Hillbilly!The appeal of blogging for me is r...Amen, Hillbilly!<BR/><BR/>The appeal of blogging for me is rooted in the eccentric individuality that comes with "owning" the delivery media. When I made my living as a freelance magazine writer, I was adamant that i write in first person, because I was not "third person omniscient."<BR/><BR/>A blog takes that philosophy several steps farther. But at the point I say that I want to "report" on Michael Banehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-1133189691056225472005-11-28T07:54:00.000-07:002005-11-28T07:54:00.000-07:00I, too, have worked as a professional journalist.....I, too, have worked as a professional journalist......as a sports writer for a small daily. For a solid year, it was my only job, so I've done my stint in the journalistic trenches, so to speak.<BR/><BR/>To this day, I sometimes do part-time sports writing because, as Hunter S. Thompson wrote, journalism is a "low, base habit" that is "worse than heroin" in some ways.<BR/><BR/>I agree with your Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com