Thank you, The Examiner, for putting choosing this throwaway post (out of the thousands I have on the Internet about teaching the youth of Baltimore) into your article about blogging:
Blogtimore.com bills itself as “a blog of blogs.” Of course, it also calls itself — tongue-in-cheek — “The Greatest Web Site in America.” The blog appears as just a collection of headlines from other sites, but it has the depth of the human experience. In one post headlined, “Time to get back to the gym,” a blogger named “Epiphany in Baltimore (epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com),” lamented “A student told me today that I looked just like Kevin James. Aughhh.”
Oh well.
Wanna hear something funny? I've never ever seen The Examiner. I know it exists, because I've heard a bit about it, but it's not delivered to my middle-class Baltimore neighborhood and I haven't been lucky enough to find one in one of its boxes when I go downtown.
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2 comments:
You should really check out the Examiner. I think there are red newspaper boxes all over Fells.
I teach journalism and have called the Examiner's office several times with random questions. They've always received me warmly, as a teacher on the phone they've never met, and they have even offerend me their reporters, tours, and boardrooms to further my students' experiences in journalism. -Amy
The only thing I don't like about that paper is that as it is delivered (in certain areas) whether you want it or not, they end up all over the sidewalk, as seen in Federal Hill/South Baltimore.
Now, The Messenger just started being delivered to me for no reason, but that has coupons!
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