Re: Article about blogs and garden writing

**n* k* <n*@att.net>**

Garden blogging is to journalism what fast food is to fine dining.  Reading those blog entries--whether witty in their snarky humor or annoying with inane demands--is akin to watching commercials. That is the sad state of the collective attention span today.   Blogs will never replace a feature story that delves deeply into a gardener's persona, because the blog medium IS the message.  It's a sound bite.  It doesn't lend itself to story depth in any way.  Nor do the posts have the type of editorial oversight demanded of most journalists.  It's a social network that occasionally educates, but more often sucks the time out of one's day.  And..."perky writing..." should make you cringe.  Anyone with a video camera can post a short video to YouTube; few make the full-length feature film.  As for Margaret Roach who proclaimed that she will never join a garden writers' group, good for her.  In place of her dues, maybe she'll donate a few
 bucks from her Martha-endowed, hefty 401k to Plant a Row for the Hungry.  

Nina A. Koziol

--- On Mon, 3/30/09, Gene Bush <genebush@netsurfusa.net> wrote:

From: Gene Bush <genebush@netsurfusa.net>
Subject: Re: [GWL] Article about blogs and garden writing
To: "'Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum'" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 2:52 PM

Hummm,
	Everyone must be out in the garden.
 I would have thought there would be several comments on the article by now.
The issue discussed certainly touches upon many of us as garden writers. Did
toes get stepped upon?
	For myself, I feel that the key word in the article was "opinion".
You know about opinions? They are like elbows... everyone has a couple of
them. May be functional on the one, but not necessarily on the other.

Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, LLC
www.munchkinnursery.com
Gardener,Writer, Photographer 

-----Original Message-----
From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:gardenwriters-
Subject: [GWL] Article about blogs and garden writing

Feature writer (and passionate gardener) Mackensie Carpenter covers garden
blogs and garden writing in general in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09089/959222-47.stm
Even the GWA is mentioned, - by Margaret Roach, who says she'll never join.
Susan 

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