June 14, 2006 6:18 AM

Why can't we just be what we are?

Swimming up mainstream: Bloggers just want to be us

You know, I get tired of those Old Media stalwarts so comfortable in their positions that they’ve managed to convince themselves that bloggers are just journalist-wannabes who dream of writing for the New York Times or other established Old Media outlets.

Sure, I suppose there is a part of me that would like to have a gig writing columns and getting paid for it. It would be nice to have a wide audience and a steady, well-paying promise of more to come. Hell, d’ya think I’d turn down a gig like that? Me? Opining and getting paid for it? Hell, yes….

Nonetheless, while losing my amateur status remains a dream, in many ways TPRS is an end in and of itself. I get to write, which is something I dearly love, and I get to toss my opinions out there for everyone to read. Since I don’t answer to an editor or a board of directors (although if She Who Endures My Myriad Eccentricities doesn’t like something I write, you can bet I’m gonna hear about it), I can do pretty much what I want. Since I tend to write about what interests me, and since I have a wide range of interests, TPRS tends to be what a reader once described as “quirky”. Hey, if that’s the worst thing I’m guilty of, so be it.

If someone chooses to pay me to do this, I’m just an email away; I’m not hard to find. In the meantime, this will remain the labor of love it’s always been. I don’t want to be anyone or take anyone’s job. I just want to be me. And if the denizens of the Old Media think that I and people like me are after their jobs…well, who I am to disabuse them of their paranoia?

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