WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF BLOGGING

At The McHale Report we have been blogging since shortly after the turn of the century. Back then we were known as El Rocinante, a much cherished title that originated in the early 1990s when we published a periodical by the same name. 

We have gone through several transformations and we have evolved or devolved, depending on the perspective of the critic, into our present presentation. We have Facebook as a forum to promulgate our message, but we are never know when the anonymous censors are going to suspended us posting on that outlet for failing to meet community standards.

Why do we blog? The obvious answer is our addiction to writing. If we go two or three days without writing, we suffer severe mental withdrawal. We begin to think that we are meaningless. Why do we exist? we ask ourselves. Writing in a fulfilling diversion. We feel sorry for people who don't record their existences.

Secondly, as young men and women who comprise the staff at The McHale Report, we were raised as journalists. We came of age when the press ended the war in Vietnam and the presidency of Richard Nixon. Our first editor began each day in the newsroom with this booming question," Who are we going to fuck today?"

In a simple statement, we blog to inform and entertain.

Our detractors often find fault with our presentation. They don't understand that a blog isn't trying to duplicate a newspaper on-line. A blog is anything that the publisher wants it to be. There are no limits to its format. We have our style and we are both comfortable and content with it. That doesn't mean there isn't room for change, but we don't hear much negative feedback from our readers in regards to delivery

Even though our publisher has been writing non-stop about Brownsville for almost five decades and generally doesn't go a day without submitting an article or a commentary to The McHale Report, there are those who argue that The McHale Report survives by merely reposting pieces from the mainstream press and the alternative press. 

They also complain that photos standing alone are a dereliction of duty. It's called wild art for those who once plied their trade at dailies but have forgotten the concept invaluable for filling space. And we feel there is always a place for soft porn although we have read Playboy for its literary value and often skipped the center foldout.

Since we conceive ourselves as a news outlet, we search for other sources that will impact our audience. We believe that the bloggers and occasionally The Brownsville Herald make important contributions to educating the community about the mass corruption in most our institutions that condemns this woeful stain on the map baptized in dirty waters and named the Third World Capital of the United States instead of the New Orleans of the Rio Grande River.

We go about our business with no pretensions. We have spent many peaceful days and nights composing our blog and reposting on Facebook. One day we picked up a tennis racket and fell in love with the game. That's probably the best explanation for our joy in blogging.