Skiing not condusive to blogging
Some of you may have wondered at the lack of posts over the last couple of weeks. I was off skiing last week and the week before was just one of those weeks…
It’s not that nothing worth commenting on has transpired. It’s just that being connected on the road is something I’m still not really in the habit of - and this may be made worse by the Blackberry which allows a shorthand connection to email and even some web browsing without the hassle of hauling out the laptop. I can’t say I didn’t have access as last week the place we were staying had free wireless broadband (which is so rare in Europe - I’m sorry but what’s up with that?), it’s just that after 7 hours of skiing everyday, I barely have enough energy to eat dinner. I thought about writing a couple of posts but decided that reading a book or a magazine or playing with the kids was a much better idea.
Read the The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm, among other things last week. Anyone who is involved with speaking to the press should read this interesting short essay, which kicks off with the line:
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
Gets your attention doesn’t it? Anyhow the rest of the book is more nuanced but as a journalist herself, she is well placed to explore the fascinating relationship between author and subject from a experienced point of view.
