An alert FrontBurnervian points us to this Mediaite story about the status of Beliefnet, which Rupert Murdoch bought in 2007 and which he sold in June. The story spends a bit of time talking about Beliefnet’s most-read blogger, brother Rod Dreher, who left our fair shores — oh, it seems so long ago, and it’s too painful to recall the exact date. Here’s what Rod told Mediaite about how his jobs at the Morning News and Beliefnet provided him different levels of feedback on his writing:
Though my day job was as an editorial writer and columnist at the News — and that was the job I put most of my effort into — the Beliefnet blog was the thing that kept getting me requests to be on radio and TV. It was a bit frustrating, because I’d work really hard to write what I thought was an important column, and … crickets. But I’d put up a tossed-off blog about a hot issue, and some producer in New York, Washington or some other place would be on the phone, wanting me to come on and talk about it.
Last I exchanged e-mail with Rod, he was bemoaning the fact that Philadelphia has no Central Market. That’s what you get for leaving the big city, man.
