Why Blog-Lebo?

Some people in Mt. Lebanon persist in characterizing Blog-Lebo as journalism. That's wrong. It's not journalism, and Joe and I aren't journalists. (I'm descended from two generations of professional journalists, so I know the difference.) We don't purport to be objective. We're critics. When it suits us, we link to news reported by the mainstream media. We critique, we comment, we offer opinion. When we see things we like, we may say that we like them. When we see things that we don't like, we may say that, too. Last night, as I was mulling the future of the blog, I wrote out a longer string of thoughts on the topic and posted it to Pittsblog. Read the whole thing here.