Thoughts on Pagan Media
You know, if and when I ever get to an event like Pantheacon (or some convention of similar size), I would really love to do a panel discussion on the Pagan media. Get some magazine publishers, web-editors of larger Pagan sites, and some of the more prominent bloggers and podcasters together and really hash things out.

I say this, because many of the issues I have with the Pagan media (barring some notable exceptions), the issues that prompted me to start doing The Wild Hunt, are basically the same now as they were five years ago.

1. A definite lack of "hard news".

2. Seemingly low editorial standards.

3. Constant re-hashing of the same ten or so theological issues that have been re-hashed over and over again since the 1970s.

4. An abundance of columnists that focus on arts and crafts/spellwork instead of on issues or theological points of view.

5. An overly "Wicca-centric" point of view that often offends and alienates the larger modern Pagan movement.

6. A vast over-reliance on the publishing schedule of the two or three major metaphysical book publishers for feature stories.

7. Interviews that never seem to challenge the subject on anything, or prompt a deeper exploration of their views/opinions.

8. Almost zero web-savvy.

9. Review sections that are little better than Amazon pages (and often worse).

10. Almost no investigative journalism or follow-up on important stories.

Those are simply the first ten issues that came to mind. But I think it is imperative that we start having that serious discussion.