Friday, November 11th, 2005...10:30 am
Housekeeping and Other Thoughts
I’ll be out of town for a couple of days, so please, no one make any news while I am gone.
If anything in our local political world does happen, though, you can keep up with it all in the Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star, or in our local broadcast outlets. Just kidding.
Tony Cani has changed his old blog, Fear Itself, over to Wactivist. Wactivist is more of a full blown website than just a run of the mill blog, although the message boards are underused, well, not used, so far. I have dropped the link to Fear Itself and replaced it with Wactivist.
One of the things that has happened over the past few weeks is that I have found out just how many people read this blog. I mean, I had an idea of how many people read it, but not how many people read it that are, for lack of a better word, “in” people. I have learned that a couple of reporters read this, and that it is read by political staffers both here and in Phoenix. Although, my escape from the litigation happy eyes of Kathleen Dunbar must mean that the readership in this crowd does not cross party lines.
I got a call from Le Templar of the East Valley Tribune. He wanted comments from a Tucsonan about Tuesday’s elections and J. D. Hayworth’s suprising reaction to them. He knew about me through the blog.
This now means that people are full of suggestions about what I should be writing. A couple of things strike me about this. One is that although nobody that has any understanding of the English language thinks I am anything approacting unbiased, I still would like to maintain a veneer of independence. All of you know my biases, but I think you all want to be reading what my opinions are, rather than my regurgitations of what someone else wants me to say.
This isn’t to say I don’t want information, of course. Keep talking to me!
Also, people are reading this because they like the style of my writing or want to read something they may not see elsewhere. I’m assuming that if y’all are reading this, it must be somewhat good, right? I don’t mind constructive criticism, but the “here’s what you should be doing…” suggestions make me wonder why so many people are reading it is as bad as the person making the suggestion asserts?
Okay, that was convuluted.
Anyhow, I’ll be in Dallas until Monday, expect no updates. See you next week!
4 Comments
November 12th, 2005 at 9:40 am
He wanted comments from a Tucsonan about Tuesday’s elections
Why?
November 12th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
Geez, Jane, here I thought you kept track of such things. We turned out two republican incumbents by two-to-one margins on Tuesday. He wanted me to relate those results to J. D.’s comments.
November 12th, 2005 at 10:45 pm
Obviously, but it struck me odd that someone from the Trib wanted a Tusconian’s perspective. After they told my husband for the last five-odd years that everything had to be done from an east valley angle.
We’ve got liberals up here, too!
November 13th, 2005 at 10:04 am
I went to the Pederson rally with Barack Obama and took some photos, which you can view here here if you would like.
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