The San Diego Union-Tribune has a story headlined “Bloggers hoping to become fabulously wealthy may
have a long wait.” Hell, how about just plain wealthy? I posted this
a month ago: “A pal of mine who writes for CounterPunch complains that the Web site doesn’t pay
anything. Face it, pal, about a million other sites don’t pay anything either.”
Think the AP reporter got the news from Straight Up? Very doubtful, because, as was
also mentioned: “If you haven’t heard that before, you haven’t been listening. … Making a living
on the Internet as an artist or as a critic won’t happen for a long, long time.”
And yet … and yet … Doug McLennan, the publisher and editor in chief of ArtsJournal, has
defied the odds. Today is ArtsJournal’s 5th Birthday.
That’s not a sign of wealth, maybe not even a living. But it’s a helluva start.
