The cat’s out of the bag, so I can blog about it. I recently joined Pajamas Media, founded by Roger Simon and Charles Johnson. I’ll be a senior contributor for the new venture, and I’m excited about the possibilities. PM aspires to be a competitive newswire service run by bloggers. Contributors will write original news stories, editorials, blog posts — whatever needs to be written and disseminated.
Traditional media are here to stay, but PM will be an alternative. The company’s name, a reference to the rantings of a disgruntled journalist who was a little ticked off that bloggers had jumped all over his friend Dan Rather, will soon change.
You’ll find out a little more about me on the profiles page, things I didn’t reveal in my bio. I asked the editor to make two corrections. When I first arrived here back in 1998 with no connections (except one friend, whose couch I slept on) and everything I owned packed in my car, I was employed and living in my own place by the end of the first week, not a few weeks. Another is the Jesus was a liberal controversy. While responding to one of Jesse Jackson’s columns, I tried to de-emphasize political labels; I wasn’t taking the opposite approach and claiming Jesus was a political conservative. I don’t think that’s clear the way the profile is written. The whole discussion is moot anyway, isn’t it?
I welcome all new visitors to my blog. Take a moment to look around, read a few posts, leave a comment or two…and visit my business blog, The Language Artist.
