 In that column Fak advised readers he was moving on into other
writing ventures, especially helping people and organizations with
their stories. That was only half of the story. Fak wishes to advise
readers that he has not stopped writing commentary. He has just
changed addresses.Fak has reached an agreement with Icologic LLC
out of Houston, Texas, to feature his columns in two Web venues. He
will be a featured columnist, with new columns on Mondays and
Thursdays, called Mike Fak's "Blundering Through the News," which
will be a lampoon of world and national news and will have the
center spot on the magazine's front page at
www.searchwarp.com.
According to Alexa, an unbiased website-ranking organization,
Searchwarp has more than four times the daily readers of the online
editions of the Pantagraph and the State Journal-Register combined.
Fak's works will also be archived for up to a year so readers who
can't follow him on a regular basis don't have to miss out on his
columns.
To fill Mike's more serious side, a formerly dormant site,
www.problogs.com, will have
his writings in a more serious vein on everything from politics, to
television, to life in these times and will be affiliated with the
Google news network. Fak intends to add news blogs to this site
every Tuesday and Friday and also will have his work archived.
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Fak chose these two venues over an opportunity to work out of the
columnist pool for GateHouse Media as a national columnist.
A Google of his name as of Thursday still showed Mike Fak as a
listed national columnist for GateHouse News Service, but Fak said
that isn't so. "I imagine they couldn't believe I would turn them
down, but I did," he said. "I prefer not to work for a newspaper
organization that is owned by an investment company interested more
in profit than allowing professionals to deliver the news to us."
Rather than comment extensively on the Courier situation, Fak
prefers to talk about the new opportunities he has by leaving
GateHouse. "I am enthused about these new venues," Fak said. "I have
an opportunity to do humor, which I dearly love, as well as serious
commentary, and offer myself up for criticism by the entire world
and not just Logan County. I enjoy receiving comments from all over
the world, whether they are complimentary or not. By far the most
frequent question I have been asked is: Why have I stopped writing?
I haven't. I have just moved over into another venue. I am out
there. People just need to know that."
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