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Valley News Reports on Dartblog
Valley News reporter Chris Fleisher has written an excellent front-page story about Dartblog and your humble servant. Read it on the VN website here. Amusingly, Dartblog’s detractors can only summon up ad hominem concerns about my personal motivations for writing about the College — not a word of criticism about Dartblog’s content.
Addendum: A longtime reader writes in:
Congratulations (if that’s the word!) on the Valley News profile. I thought it was a very fair-minded piece. In fact, I thought your detractors were damned by the feeble nature of their critiques, at least as presented in the article. Isn’t it an absurd (and insulting) notion that you would throw yourself into a blog solely out of feeling spurned by the 2010 trustee election? As though one could not possibly be motivated by substantive and legitimate concerns about the direction of the College?
Great post for new readers today as well. Hopefully this provides a greater platform for your analysis and allows your voice to carry further.
As the Valley News piece accurately details, I began daily blogging on Dartblog in August 2009, about eight months before the 2010 Trustee election; and between 2003 and 2009, I wrote over 30 columns for The D.
Addendum: The Concord Monitor picked up the VN piece, and ran it in Sunday paper (but not on-line).
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