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Bloggers Consider Forming Labor Union
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Posted on 08/06/2007 4:29:15 PM PDT by jmcenanly
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It seems that lately, anytime a new medium of communication opens up, the conservatives find new ways to use it , and the left finds ways to gum it up and slow it down.
To me a bloggers union makes as much sense as a union for golfers.
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:29:18 PM PDT
by
jmcenanly
To: jmcenanly
Who would they strike against? This is crazy.
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:30:52 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
To: jmcenanly
"..Do bloggers need their own Norma Rae? In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standar.."
Only goofy Bolsheviks would think they are entitled to benefits like this.
To: jmcenanly
a bloggers union makes as much as a plumbers strip club
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:32:13 PM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
To: Jaysun
My first thought also. Collective bargaining against who exactly? Who is it that they claim is “oppressing” them?
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:34:40 PM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: jmcenanly
Loggers I can understand, but bloggers?
To: jmcenanly
Meet our demands or we will never blog again! (sound of crickets)
To: jmcenanly
So who will be their Jimmy Hoffa?
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:38:14 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
To: jmcenanly
Maybe I don’t know what a “blogger” is. Because I don’t understand this at all.
To: Anti-Bubba182
conduct collective bargaining...
For what?
To: jmcenanly
a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining.. 
It takes crack-addled brains to come with that kind of nonsense.
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:39:54 PM PDT
by
bikerMD
(Beware, the light at the end of the tunnel may be a muzzle flash.)
To: jmcenanly
"Go to your corner! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9..."
Unions, doing what's best for the rank and file leadership...
Unions are on the ropes. Most everyone has figured them out by now, thank heaven.
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:39:58 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:41:27 PM PDT
by
don-o
(Do the RIGHT thing. Become a monthly donor. End Freepathons forever)
To: keepitreal
I don’t get it either. It is just more Lefty fantasy.
To: rfp1234
Standards for the bloggers union - let’s start with standard use of spell check.
Did anyone else notice the misspelling of “standard” in the first paragraph?
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:41:51 PM PDT
by
tbw2
(Science fiction with real science - "Humanity's Edge" by Tamara Wilhite)
To: tbw2
Better yet, they all must pass a spelling and grammar test prior to being admitted to the union!
To: jmcenanly
union for golfers.That's a great idea!
Negotiate for my handicap, protest for an extra mulligan, free beer on every other hole, free membership for life for a hole in one, turbo charged golf carts.
Union thugs enforcing playing though
The list is endless
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:48:39 PM PDT
by
Popman
(I removed my Bushbot brain chip after he didn't veto the McCain Feingold election anti freedom bill)
To: tcostell
My first thought also. Collective bargaining against who exactly? Who is it that they claim is “oppressing” them?
The answer is a no-brainer.
Those bloggers would've have been "oppressed" by the readers who refused or didn't bother to come to their websites and read their junk. It's akin to the liberal talk shows that nobody listened to. The liberals complained that the people weren't being fair to them, or felt that the "right talk show hosts" hogged all the airwaves. And the liberals won't have anybody ignoring them again and, hence, they need a labor union to make sure that enough traffic is sent their way. Imagine, fairness on the internet where liberal bloggers get the same amount of traffic as republican/conservative bloggers. Imagine that you click on a "right wing" blog, but your browser is redirected to a left-wing blog because traffic to the left wing blog was sensed as being lower at any particular moment than traffic to the right wing blogs.
It's only fair and that's why a union is needed. /sarc
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:48:52 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: adorno
I am sooooo confused.
Are there bloggers who get paid for blogging? Maybe I’m behind the times, but I thought the bloggers were ordinary people putting their opinions out there on the internet, but it wasn’t a paying job of any kind. If it’s not a paying job, how can they have a union?
To: tbw2
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:54:27 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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