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Clarification for new readers - maybe old readers too
The question of "what is the voice of Blue Hampshire" or the voice of another blog is about equivalent to: what is the voice of the Keene Sentinel or the New York Times.
These newspapers have three voices speaking in any issue:
The paper itself, in editorials
Columnists recruited by the paper, in opinion page and op-ed pieces. These columnists are often selected because they can be provocative, and do not represent the "voice of the paper"
The readership, in Letters to the Editor. These letters may or may not focus on subjects the paper has covered, and represent the views of the individual readers, with no particular relationship to the paper's view.
Here and on similar blogs, most of the diaries are the equivalent of Letters to the Editor.
The front-page contributors - currently Mike Hoefer, Susan Bruce, and I - are rough analogs to the columnists.
The founders / owners, Dean and Laura, usually also write as columnists: speaking their own views without claiming that they speak for the site. But occasionally, sometimes without formally saying so, they will speak as the Voice of Blue Hampshire (speaking ex cathedra, to be pontifically pretentious). Recently Dean posted a notice and memorial of another New Hampshire death in Iraq and closed the front-page diary to comments. That was the voice of Blue Hampshire.
Very often the Letters section contains some of the most compelling and insightful writing - that's true in The Atlantic these days. But they don't constitute the definitive "voice" of the publication or blog.
And to clarify or confuse: I am writing this as a regular reader and participant - not as a front-pager, and not as the "voice of Blue Hampshire." I believe, based on decades of engaging in public dialog in different media, that this summary is accurate and useful. But it has no Good Housekeeping stamp to make it Blue Hampshire policy right now.
Blue Hampshire RSS
These newspapers have three voices speaking in any issue:
Here and on similar blogs, most of the diaries are the equivalent of Letters to the Editor.
The front-page contributors - currently Mike Hoefer, Susan Bruce, and I - are rough analogs to the columnists.
The founders / owners, Dean and Laura, usually also write as columnists: speaking their own views without claiming that they speak for the site. But occasionally, sometimes without formally saying so, they will speak as the Voice of Blue Hampshire (speaking ex cathedra, to be pontifically pretentious). Recently Dean posted a notice and memorial of another New Hampshire death in Iraq and closed the front-page diary to comments. That was the voice of Blue Hampshire.
Very often the Letters section contains some of the most compelling and insightful writing - that's true in The Atlantic these days. But they don't constitute the definitive "voice" of the publication or blog.
And to clarify or confuse: I am writing this as a regular reader and participant - not as a front-pager, and not as the "voice of Blue Hampshire." I believe, based on decades of engaging in public dialog in different media, that this summary is accurate and useful. But it has no Good Housekeeping stamp to make it Blue Hampshire policy right now.