My Comment after reading Mark Tapscotts analysis of Hugh Hewitt’s piece on 21st centruy journalism.
“Blogger and Talk Radio host Hugh Hewitt has a fascinating and important column in the latest Weekly Standard entitled “The Media’s Ancien Regime.” To put it bluntly, Hewitt has little hope for anything remotely resembling a bright future for what has passed for much of the previous century as objective journalism.”

Jenny Hatch
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Mark,
I read all of Hugh’s piece and your analysis. I’m wondering if you or anyone else has an online “school” for bloggers who would like to up jounalism skills?
I’m just a busy mom, who happens to have a passion for Liberty, writing, and current events. But it has been amazing to me to go from 5 hits my first day of Blogging to six months later having 35,000 hits this month alone with 9,710 unique users in January, and the month isn’t even close to being over.
These people coming in must enjoy my writing, which I think of as sophemoric and unpolished, or they wouldn’t come and look around so much. Yet I feel so “untrained” as a blogger journalist.
So much of my writing is done surrounded by my family. With children interupting asking for computer time to finish homework, and in the dark of the night when I can finally write without hearing my three year old yell, “I’m hungry Mom”.
I guess my main question is, as novice writers, how much of a responsibility do we have as bloggers who have quickly found an audience to be “legitimate” writers??? What makes one legit? And should I even be concerned about this as an issue???
Just the thoughts on my blogger mind as I read Hugh’s piece and your analysis.
I sort of feel sorry for those students spending $59,000.00 per year to become “legit” in certain people’s minds. Seems like an awful waste of money.
Thanks for your blog.
Jenny Hatch

I feel so sorry for this mother. If it is possible she obtained the infection at the hospital, this story is just another justification for staying home surrounded by “familiar” family germs, rather than opening the mother and the baby up for possible iantrogenic infection obtained from simply being in the hospital. Certain forms of staph bacteria only exist in hospitals.
Jenny Hatch

Jennifer Williams – Indiana Midwife
“A midwife from Bloomington turned herself in to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department Friday afternoon as dozens of her supporters walked the grounds of the Shelby County Courthouse to protest the charges filed against her.”
Please remember, it is never the family who prosecutes these midwives. It is almost always an overzealous licensing board, backed up by the medical association who presses the charges.
Let Freedom Reign….Let Families choose whomever they want to have assist them with their birth. Let all the Midwives out of jail!!!
Jenny Hatch

I am part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed.
The dye has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made.
I am a disciple of Jesus Christ.
I won’t look back, let up, slow down, or be still.
My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure.
I’m finished and done with low living, small planning, smooth knees,
colorless dreams, tamed visions ,worldly talking, cheap giving and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need pre-eminence, position, promotions, plaudits or popularity. I don’t have to be right, first, recognized, praised, regarded, or rewarded.
I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk with patience, am uplifted by prayer and labor with power. My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven.
My road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, divided or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I won’t give up, shut up, or let up, until I have stayed up, stored up, and paid up for the cause of Christ. I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops me.
And when He returns for his own, He will have no problem recognizing me. My Banner will be clear.
My Mom is serving as a Missionary in Korea right now with my Dad, and she sent this to the family. I thought I would share it here.
Jenny Hatch