The other day I was at the library and by chance ended up at an event hosted by independent presses "How to become a citizen journalist".
Well, it's so easy nowadays and anybody can self-publish through blogging, self-publishing books and there they were talking about self-publishing online and offline newspapers.
There was a university professor teaching journalism among other speakers. During the discussion period I had a chance to ask her a question that is always on my mind: "Don't you think that this huge amount of writing/publishing amateurs is diluting PROFESSIONALISM in writing?"
I'm one of those bloggers you know ;-)
She said that this was an important question and in her opinion there were two sides to it: from a reader's point of view we have to be patient and keep reading the amateurs if the topic is interesting to us; from a self-publishing writer point of view we have to do our best if we have something important to say on the topic we know and master.
I like it!
So, folks, let's keep doing our best in writing and reading ;-)
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