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Huffington Post Bloggers Want Collective Bargaining Rights. Told To Fuck Off

http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/04/hu...ve-bargaining/

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Bill Lasarow, Publisher and Co-Editor of Visual Art Source, announced that his organization is ?now going on strike. For now, at least, no more content from us will appear on the Huffington Post.?

Visual Art Source members have contributed content to the Huffington Post for free since 2010. Lasarow wrote that ?it is unethical to expect trained and qualified professionals to contribute quality content for nothing.?

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The group hopes that Huffington will ?do the right thing? and agree to their requests. However, Lasarow wrote that he would be unsurprised if ?like the corporate titans of the American Right? Ms Huffington, whom I am certain has a good heart and only the best intentions, were to assume the obvious position: Who needs these people anyway??

Robert Scheer wrote in The Nation on February 23 a defense of Huffington?s system of not paying contributors. ?In defense of the use of unpaid bloggers, of which I happen to be one among the many who appear on a regular basis on the Huffington Post, we are not exploited,? wrote Scheer.

The contributors on strike claim that well-known contributors ?who will never need to be concerned about pay scales? should be ashamed of themselves for abetting the current situation.

Scheer claimed that ?for most contributors, the op-ed page was never a serious source of income.?

Huffington dismissed the strike Thursday at a conference hosted by PaidContent in New York City. ?Go ahead, go on strike,? Huffington said, ridiculing ?the idea of going on strike when no one really notices.?

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/04/hu...#ixzz1FkIjpqAN

:1orglaugh

Did you read the article? None of those bloggers are employees and submitted content on their own. That would be like tgp submitters claiming that the tgp owner owes them revenue sharing... of course that is stupid.

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Originally Posted by nation-x (Post 17959749)

Yes I read it. I didnt say either way if it was stupid or not.

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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls (Post 17959753)

Yes I read it. I didnt say either way if it was stupid or not.

Ok... I will... those bloggers are stupid.

Where do I find these free writers??

They submit articles to get traffic... that is how huffpo works...

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Originally Posted by nation-x (Post 17959773)

They submit articles to get traffic... that is how huffpo works...

yep
traffic, followers for twitter, pimping their latest books etc...

Thread backfire. Duh.

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Originally Posted by Brujah (Post 17960106)

Thread backfire. Duh.

How so? :1orglaugh

This shit is fucking funny all around.

1. Die hard socialists believe that workers deserve a cut of profits on anything they work on
2. Die hard socialists go on "strike" because they have agreed to work for free now want money for it.
3. Die hard socialists tells those socialists to fuck off.

If you don't see the humor in it I dont know what to say. :1orglaugh

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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls (Post 17960153)

The obvious flaw in your thinking here is that obviously Huffington isn't a socialist... it's just a dumbass label that you put on anyone that you think is "liberal".