Posted on 04/17/2006 4:47:22 AM PDT by abb
I think that story deserves a complete new thread. And since WE'RE the editors here, WE get to decide what is and isn't news.
Anything that chronicles the plight of the Dinosaur Media deserves full and complte reporting...
"Even the people that write for the Star & Sickle don't find it worth paying for."
I am a part-time freelance writer. Generally you get a free copy of a publication in which something you wrote appears. When a publication refuses to do this, I usually find another publication to write for, unless that publication is paying a dollar a word or so (then I can afford to buy a copy of the publication).
I can see where the Star reporters could get peeved about having a traditional perk removed from them. That clip can be an important part of a portfolio. (I recently got a job writing a weekly column based on clips that had appeared in Boy's Life.) So having the newspaper management cheap out on them, and making them pay even a nominal fee cannot be good for morale
Generally it isn't the well paying magazines that stiff me author's copies, it is the ones paying the lowest rates or for whom I am writing free because some organization to which I belong has asked me to.
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This is so funny, I thought that I was ready a thread from a satire site.
Even Mrs. Abb, who has absolutely no sense of humor found this story amusing...
These stories of the commy employees of these newspapers enable us to really see how mentally ill most of these employees are. They are mentally ill communists caught in a time wrap, when communism and the fish wraps are going out of vogue.
Bump for those who missed this.
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