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| "The article on which the Church... oh, I am too sleepy after coffee with cream and danish." |
My adventures in journalism began at Coolidge Junior High, so English class was journalism class, and I helped with the student paper in a small way. Classes with credit came along later when I decided to add enough MA hours to qualify for teaching writing. True, I already had books and articles, plus teaching about 70 classes on how to write. But the suits who run higher education like credit, so I took some classes until I reached 20 hours.
One expert predicted, around 2006, that that citizen journalists would take over as the big newspaper empires collapsed. I did not think it would happen, even though I published independently to sneak past the watchful Objective Justification dragons. One morbidly obese bureaucrat made sure that even my ads on Logia were banned.
Blogging made it easy to publish the religion page and I had some hopes that more would do the same independently. But nothing is too good to be spoiled by their Father Below. The founder of Intrepid Lutherans was the first to bail out, doubtless pushed by the new Martin Luther, Mirthless Mark Schroeder. The nauseating Steadfast Lutherans began as lapdogs of OJ and Matt the Fat Harrison.
Nevertheless, the collapse of the mainlines will continue with the soi-disant Conservative Lutherans chanting their eulogies to their departing co-conspirators.
Meanwhile, the political blogs have taken off with great energy and resources. I find the big conservative sites rather tame and watered down. Independent writers with their own little blogs are providing what was predicted years ago. Everyone can record, research, and publish.
The reaction of the overfed yet under-read church bureaucrats has not been, "We should fix this!" No, they agree - "We must silence this."
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| This is how church bureaucrats see themselves. |
