Andy Borgmann's Blog

I have been producing a radio show for two years now. It has been a lot of fun and it has been an eye-opening experience. But up until the past two weeks, I never felt as if I were part of the "media" per se - or maybe better put, the traditional media. I consider myself more of a Newsvine media type - you know, a citizen journalist. That has changed because of three events the past two weeks.

I had another photo I took published a couple of weeks ago in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Sure it was nothing spectacular, but this bring my total of photos published in various newspapers and magazines to four this year (all unfortunately with out accurate attribution, but that's beside the point, I am not trying to be a photojournalist, I don't care).

The second event came this week when Delta exited bankruptcy. I was reading a Press Release because I am an aviation nerd and I get interested in anything that has to do with aviation. But the strangest thing happened. For the first time ever (and I have read a lot of aviation press releases), at the bottom it said only employees and the press are invited to this event and I thought to myself, well I am the press, I wonder if I can go to that. It was too late of notice, but I think for the next Delta event, I will see if I can do that.

The third event is how I know my "Press Membership" has really kicked in. I used to get about one e-mail a week from a publicist of an author trying to get me to get Allen to plug a book on the air. I would then also get about one book a month in the mail sent to me to review. Just this week, I have had six books sent to me directly from the publishers. And not crappy stuff either (which the old stuff was pretty crappy).

I am currently reading a book called My Single Mom Life by Angela Thomas (it came with a new book by John MacArthur on truth that I am also quite excited to read). Yeah it feels a little weird reading a book written by a single mom, for a single mom, but it is actually quite interesting. And for the first time I think I have actually found a book that I will recommend to Allen to get for an interview when we talk about mothers.

I am not really sure what my point is to this blog, but it is nice to feel apart of the media and it really shows you that God knows what He is doing. Even as an "award winning high school journalist", I never thought I would actually be in the media. It goes to show God knows what He is doing if you just trust him (to think, I was going to be a doctor).