Friday, June 05, 2009

Blogging the Death Penalty

Do we really need a death penalty blog?

I've commented before on the proliferation of blogs at The Dallas Morning News. There were over 50 and counting then. Today, on the Opinion blog, Michael Landauer talks about the fact that there have been 200 executions in Texas during Gov. Rick Perry's time in office. To mark the occasion (I guess), the News has instituted yet another blog, the TEXAS DEATH PENALTY blog. Is it possible for a blog itself to deserve the death penalty? Other than this comment, don't expect to see any references to the new blog here.

2 comments:

Destiny said...

kind of...morbid.

Ed Cognoski said...

Morbid? Sure. But it's a fact that people are being put to death in this state by a system that has been proven again and again to be imperfect. Talking about the death penalty is necessary to address that sad fact. But will enough people want to talk about it to sustain a blog? I doubt it.