Why this blog is the future

Welcome to the first post of my new blog.  If you're reading this, congratulations -- you're probably me.  Way to go, me! 

But if you have, somehow, stumbled across this blog, then you might be wondering who I am or what it's for.  I'm a journalism student, trying to do some writing so that I can have something resembling a portfolio when it comes time for me to try and get a job.

That's a joke, of course!  There aren't any jobs in journalism.

I'll mostly be writing about media issues.  The media affects all of us, always, 100 percent of every day.  And if there's one thing we in the media love to talk about, it's us.  So join me, a member of the media, as I look at us, the media.  And other things.  Anything I want to write about.  It's my blog, after all.

Now you may still have some questions.  What is a blog?  Why are you doing this?  Why should I read this? Where am I?  Is this the future? What are these strange creatures?  

The answers are, respectively: Blogs are the future; because I, like my entire generation, have a constant need for validation from the internet; because the words I write here will someday be the basis of an entire lifestyle (not like the Bible, more like the Atkins Diet); you are in the future; yes; and Morlocks.