Response to "Why I Blog" by Andrew Sullivan

After reading the article “Why I Blog” by Andrew Sullivan, I believe that he blogs because it is a way to show his real self to everyone. When writing the traditional way, there are usually editors who go back and read over what you write and tell you to change certain things up. After so many edits, the writing loses its uniqueness to the person who wrote it. Everyone writes differently, and blogging is a way to show the unfiltered version of that writing. It shows the true you and how you write rather than how the editor wants you to.
He also compared blogging to many different aspects of writing a column for a newspaper, some good and some bad. One good thing about blogging rather than writing a newspaper column was the quickness that something could be posted about something like 9/11 or things like that. When something like that happens, information can be posted in a blog within hours of it happening, where if you were going to read about it in a newspaper, you would have to wait until the next day. A bad thing about writing a blog compared to writing a newspaper column is the immediate criticism. When you mess up in a newspaper column it’s no big deal. They just put a small error section in another paper a few days later. But blogging is a lot more personal because when you mess up in a blog, someone is probably going to call you out on it immediately. But being called out like that can also be a good thing because it helps you become a better writer.
So I believe that Andrew Sullivan blogs because he actually gets to personally write about things he wants to write about and he gets to freely express himself.