We read a lot of blogs (we USED our blogroll by the way and read all sides) but somehow didn’t know until just now that on June 8 due to one of our posts we were inducted by Shrillblog into the Ancient and Hermetic Order of the Shrill.
Here’s the intro:
Joe Gandelman is a professional voice. His schtick on the internet is that of a professional moderate voice, someone who is reasonable, who avoids the excesses of partisanship, who takes a deep breath and realizes that there are two sides to every story and that we need to be… calm, reasonable, and thoughtful always.
He reads Peggy Noonan.
His brain explodes.
Now he is one of us! Embrace your destiny! Feel the power of Shrillness!
Read the whole post yourself.
PS: We have held true to our word, as mentioned in the post Shrillblog sites. We don’t read her anymore due to that article. No credibility (in TMV’s view).
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.