A Couple of Other Things I'm Working on

Cutter's Log - Stardate 0102.01.50
Current Song - Undun (The Guess Who)

I started to cover things once again on Saturday. At points during that day, I thought of a couple of things. A column and a statement.

The column will be something along the line of seeing different atmospheres within the NISB coverage area. The second, the one which is more like a statement, is about trying to fend off potentially-fatal blows that newspapers are trying to deliver to NISB. If anything, online sites like mine are nothing but a nusiance to newspapers, according to them.

Newspapers will survive for many, many, many, many, many years. The typical online rival publication doesn't last too long. Every year for the past six years I've been trying to reinvent the website I run. I think a lot of newspaper people think that one day I'm going to launch something sick, and I should be taken down before I launch it - (Where does this sound familiar? Am I Khan Noonien Singh in control of Genesis?).

As I'm being looked at as a threat to the survival of the press, at the same time I still want to do what I love doing. I don't believe that since I don't work for a newspaper I am barred from doing it. I'm just going to be looked at differently.

The thoughts in the past three paragraphs are those I have constantly thought about over the past few years. Is it best to take out the other side? Is it best to work together? Is it best to stay apart? If we stay apart, doesn't that entice one side to overtake the other? So, is it really best to work together?

How does a website like Northern Illinois Sports Beat work together with a newspaper sports section? This calls for an Accord.

Give me a few weeks.