One of the most interesting aspects of the “new media” is the interaction between a weblog and its readers — or readers (or cable show or radio show listeners) contacting the site by email. We all get emails. Boy to we get emails….sites on the left, center and right.
On the left, the daily Kos gets some that are so colorful that it today offers its first installment of the five top emails of the week. Details here. As in the case of the emails we get, an angry emailer often says more about the person writing the email than about the site.
But we have to admit it: most of TMV’s emails are not anger or furious ones. Still, they’re not all peaches and cream. They resemble this song sung by Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur from “Mame”:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.