As I Type It: For What You’re Worth

As I look back through the 250 or so scripts we here at News From The Great Re-Depression have produced over the course of our first year, the material strikes me as generously appropriate to our wicked and stingy times. But perhaps we have been overly grim in our pursuit of grim news to pass along, grimly, to grim consumers. Maybe we should lighten up a bit.

After all, we began this publishing venture midstream, as it were, thus avoiding the incremental defeats and forfeitures suffered over the course of decades by the slowly contracting alternative press. Maybe we should have taken a more serious look at the Huffington Post model and saved ourselves the trouble of endlessly hiring and firing people brought in to isolate the zeitgeist and peddle it to the ever-desirable hipster demographic. In short, that lifestyle and rock and roll crap probably works.

And so, we will give it a shot and try our best to reach out to the post-consumer consumer, living small in a culture of decline. And then we will beat that poor devil half to death with blogs, tweets, whinnies and shrieks, all designed to snag that all too precious momentary glance.

We will do this with great sincerity and mercenary flair.