To all my fellow bloggers:
The next time some sniveling little snothead in the mainstream corporate controlled media makes some snide, snotty little unkind remark about bloggers, point them to this post. We might also mention Joe Bageant, who tells us that “blogging is not literature”, despite the fact that he’s apparently living like Howard (Walter Huston) did at the end of the book and movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. We’ll forgive Joe Bageant and buy his book anyway, but the sniveling little snotheads in the mainstream corporate controlled media need some comeuppance, so here it is:
Dear Mrs. Blumberg,Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. An average American book is twice as long as a British book on the same subject. The same is true of articles.
There is not an idea that cannot be expressed in 200 words. But the writer must know exactly what he wants to say. If you have nothing to say and boldly want to say it, then all the words in the dictionary will not suffice.
Do not count a, of, the, and, etc. Averaging the number of words in a line is OK.
Warm regards,
