Would you fly in a jet flown by someone who simply declared themselves a pilot?
Or might you expect a bit more?
RE: Would you fly in a jet flown by someone who simply declared themselves a pilot?
That would have been a very apt analogy if blogging were as difficult as training to fly a plane or training to become a surgeon.
However, doing research can be done by any literate person who can think logically and objectively and write, unlike flying a plane or doing surgery. This is especially true if the blogger were a good college graduate, has experience writing, and maybe has a day job that is unrelated to writing.
If flying a plane were like doing research, then the writers at CNN and MSNBC would be crashing their planes everytime.
Give me a better analogy.
Here is the background of the author of the book:
Since 2008, Jana Riess has been an editor in the publishing industry, primarily working in the areas of religion, history, popular culture, ethics, and biblical studies. From 1999 to 2008, she was the Religion Book Review Editor for Publishers Weekly, and continues to write freelance reviews for PW as well as other publications.
She holds degrees in religion from Wellesley College and Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in American religious history from Columbia University. She speaks often to media about issues pertaining to religion in America, and has been interviewed by the Associated Press, Time, Newsweek, People, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and Newsday, among other print publications, as well as “Voice of America,” the “Today” show, MSNBC, and NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Tell Me More,” and “Talk of the Nation.”
She is the author or co-author of many books, including The Prayer Wheel; Flunking Sainthood; What Would Buffy Do?; Mormonism for Dummies; and The Writer’s Market Guide to Getting Published. Her book The Twible: All the Chapters of the Bible in 140 Characters or Less . . . . Now with 68% More Humor! won first place in the non-fiction category in the Writer’s Digest Annual Self-Published Book Awards. Her book The Next Mormons: The Rising Generation of Latter-day Saints will be released in March 2019 from Oxford University Press.
She is a senior columnist for Religion News Service.
If you want to know more about Religion News Service, read all about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_News_Service
Now, tell me again if she is some out of the blue blogger who can’t be hired by any reputable company as a writer.