The season of hot takes is over
I’ve gone through many platforms over the years - Blogger, Covblogs, my own site, finally Facebook (with a brief interlude on Tumblr). I’ve been writing on Facebook a while because it’s where my biggest audience was, and I didn’t have to worry about moderating comments.
But I’ve decided I don’t want my Facebook feed to be a political food fight any more. I still care about the issues facing our society, but I hope to write about them in a more reflective way than I can when I am responding to other people’s articles - all too many of them about whatever (and whomever) is at the top of the news cycle.
Both modern journalism and social media are driven by what gets people’s attention quickly - the urgent, rather than the important. Now that a certain president has left office, I hope to start writing about what is important for the long term - not merely what makes me upset in a given week. Like so many (too many?), I’m trying out Substack to see if it will help meet that goal.
You can subscribe below, but I won’t promise a regular publication schedule. I will promise that I won’t charge you for this anyway. Charging you would make this feel like work, and I have enough work as it is.
I think you’ll be able to comment here even if you don’t subscribe. Let’s look deeper than the daily news.