Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Why am I doing my happy dance?

Because I'm about to send a message to Katrina vanden Heuvel. Sort of.

Katrina vanden Heuvel,

Hello, my name is Bryan Rainey, and I am a junior at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. For my AP Language project this quarter, I was required to follow and analyze the work of an opinion writer in a blog. I have been following your articles for the Washington Post, and my project can be found at http://brainey1.blogspot.com/For my last blog post, I analyzed how you shaped your argument in the article "Obama: On the way to a failed presidency?" found here.

I've really enjoyed reading your articles, and I would sincerely appreciate it if you answered a couple questions. Are there any additional issues to which you could refer me that relate to Obama's recent steps to compromise with Conservatives? In addition, are there any specific articles you have written that you would recommend for me as a Liberal high school student?

Thank you for writing such bold and eloquent articles recently; analyzing them was a great experience for me!

Bryan

I have mixed feelings about this. Because Katrina vanden Heuvel does not leave her email address at the end of her articles, I have attempted to contact her through The Nation's website. I clicked on the link to contact The Nation, but I'm not exactly sure what it means to contact an entire magazine. I ended up addressing it to Katrina vanden Heuvel anyway. I don't know if that's allowed, but I wasn't going to address the message to an undefined group of people, and I don't think I had many options.

We'll see what happens. Hopefully I can write a follow-up blog post if I get a response, but if not, it's been swell.

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