Apology for sporadic blog posts

I'm feeling guilty for not having posted anything here in a week... It's not for lack of material--Lord knows that tort reformers never sleep. But I have a confession to make: I really hate blogging. I know, it's the wave of the future, yadda yadda yadda. But I am a working journalist, and I guess I'm still wedded to the Old Media. I like books, magazine articles, newspaper stories, things that we used to call "long-form" journalism. Successful blogging, for the most part, entails little more than noting some other journalist's actual work--you know, real reporting--and making snarky comments about it in the hopes that someday, someone will actually pay you to be snarky on TV.  (The blogging itself is also a big money loser, the $103 I've made from Google ads notwithstanding.)

Personally, I'd much rather be doing the actual reporting than the snarking. So that's what I've been doing of late--reporting for magazines and books for which, unlike blogging, I get paid--as well as doing my laundry, calling my mom, and watering my carrot seeds. Being a good blogger requires sitting at a desk for long periods of time or Blackberry enslavement, wrecking your eyesight reading all the other blogs, and then posting at 3 a.m. I guess I'd just rather tend to the carrots...Anyway, I appreciate all of you who bear with me and check in periodically for my intermittent ramblings.

By the way, for any northeast Pennsylvania readers, I'll be speaking and signing copies of my book at the University of Scranton tomorrow night at 7:30. Details and related op-ed here.

Comments

[Brian King]

Stephanie, I hear ya. I try to keep up with my own blogging about ERISA and it's sometimes a challenge. But please know you are read and appreciated! Thanks for your always interesting and informative posts. You are a wonderful and necessary counterweight to Brickman, Walter Olson, Ted Frank and all the other bought-and-paid for industry shills for whom the facts matter not at all. I don't know of any other blogs that accomplish that besides the Tortellini!

[jon]

please do the bork story.