If you look at the CONTACT column on the left you’ll see the name of another Guest Blogger who will be contributing to TMV from time to time.
His name is Jonathan Singer who has the great blog BASIE! We first read his site after finding one of his original Q&A interviews and felt it was as professional as any interview anywhere. And when we began to explore his site, we loved what he did with news stories plus the fact that — like our other contributors — he is what we call an “independent thinker.”
To explain a bit more: an “independent thinker” can be someone on the right, left, or center, or center-right, center-left or all over the place like yours truly. There may be a political preference, but issues are usually addressed in terms other than ajective hurling or name calling. And the writer sometimes pauses to consider the “on the other hand” (which may or may not be accepted in the end).
In any event, we have independent thinkers with differing views. If you look at the writers (and the following generalization doesn’t hold on every issue) you have people who veer towards general center, center-right, center-left or…TMV himself who is reviled by Republicans and Democrats.
In any event, we respect our contributors’ great talents and efforts to think a bit deeper about events and their willingness to help us out. We’re FANS of every one of them.
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.