Trentelman: Blogs and Tri-corner Hats

Nice plug from this morning's Standard-Examiner

We'd like to call our readers' attention to what we consider to be a very nice Weber County Forum plug in this morning's Standard-Examiner, for which courtesy we thank Wasatch Rambler columnist Charles Trentelman:

• What do blogs and tri-corner hats have in common?

We do believe Charlie gets it mainly right. Yes, we are a community discussion forum, filling up a space left largely unoccupied by the mainstream media. And yes, speculation and gossip are sometimes part of our product mix, although we also believe we deserve credit for the scores of hard news stories we've broken on these electronic pages over the past 3-1/2 years. Not only that, most of our articles are springboarded off stories scrupulously linked from the broadcast and/or print media, so it's a mite unfair, we believe, to perceive us as "soft" on the facts. Nevertheless, citizen editorial journalism is what we practice here at WCF for the most part. We have no pretensions of being primarily hard-news journalists.

We're not going to gripe, however; this morning's column was a very nice plug, as we said. We're happy to assume the mantle of the original citizen journalists of this country, (the patriotic ones who wore the tri-corner hats.)

And for those readers who'd like to conveniently navigate to Charlie's own most excellent (non-vitriolic and non-mean-spirited) blog, we'll return Charlie's favor. We have the link right here:

• Blogging the Rambler

Here's another thing Charlie gets right, by the way: Blogging is a hell of a lot of fun.

And to those new readers who were steered here by the URL that Charlie graciously included this morning's column, we invite you to read the articles and comments lodged on the front page, and to check out the article collections categorised in the right sidebar.

Hopefully we'll pick up a few new "regulars" along the way, open-minded readers who recognise the advantages of reading opinions (and facts) unconstrained by the whims of paid advertisers, ... and publishing their own observations and comments about local and national issues -- in real time -- to a readership which spans the globe.

Try it... you'll like it, we think.

So what say our gentle readers about this? The blogosphere eagerly awaits your next electronic utterance!