Be Not Idle

The Anchoress has a 2008 round-up of end-of-year reviews. Plus she calls for predictions from the readers. Here are mine: 

1. Local newspapers will survive while the big dailies continue their decline. Today Tim Dowd, publisher of the Port Huron Times Herald, explained how the local economy has led to changes in the paper. It’s a good paper, attentive to its readers and willing to go the long haul in investigative reporting (a rarity nowadays).  I hope it survives.

2.  There will be increased calls (perhaps even successful) to regulate Internet news sources.

3. Trusted newsbloggers will have egg on their faces when they’re taken in by a hot Internet story that turns out to be a hoax – or sophisticated propaganda by a political group.

4. Across the nation, liberals who revel in the decline of big businesses will be shocked and dismayed to discover how much their area’s arts, education, and recreation programs were underwritten by big businesses.

5. The black squirrel population will make a comeback across the Thumb of Michigan. 

I decided to stay home for New Year’s Eve. When this post appears, I will either be asleep or reading a book. I will awaken to do major housecleaning, as per tradition. After that, it’s back to the grind.

I hope 2009 is a better year for all of us.

Lord Jesus, teach me to be joyful on this, the first day of the year, and on all the days of my life.  – Fr. John Catour, Joyfully LIving the Gospel Day by Day