Sheesh

A few nights ago I was on a panel about arts writing. One of the other panelists was a woman who produces her own monthly theatre newsletter and also reviews plays for CBC Radio. She’s been doing her newsletter for many years, and she pointed out (or maybe it was the third panelist, who was clearly a good friend of hers, who pointed it out) that she didn’t just sit back and wait for mainstream media to offer her a forum, but rather took the initiative and created her own forum, and built her credibility and reputation up from scratch.

I in turn pointed out that while her newsletter exists only in hard-copy form, it’s never been easier to employ her strategy than it is right now, what with free online blogging platforms, etc.

And her thoughts on the Internet? “I don’t want to have anything to do with it. There’s a lot of junk on there and I don’t want to be associated with it.”

Nice.