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A Proposal For Unionizing Bloggers
mikesd81 writes "Coloumbia Journal Review writes about the possibility of unionizing bloggers. Chris Mooney writes 'Yes, dear reader: the Bloggers Guild of America may be on its way. The dispute between screen and television writers and media conglomerates has its roots, after all, in the Web.' He says, then, they get zero compensation for their products being distributed over the Internet. 'Bloggers often earn that same salary. There are exceptions, of course, those fortunate few who have become quasi-celebrities in their own right and found themselves, and their sites, snatched up by major media companies,' he goes on to say. He also adds that a bloggers guild could protect a blogger's intellectual property and help ensure they're compensated for it."
So, if they strike, does that make those of us who keep blogging scabs? 'Cause I'm completely okay with that.
Stupid gits.
Moderate drunk! It's more fun that way!
bloggers were journalists. Why don't they join a journalists union. Doesn't forming a union go against the whole idea that the "blogosphere" is a maverick movement raging against the machine? It's just like John McCain suggesting he is some sort of maverick, when he is really just a lifetime senator that has done nothing but make the occasional principled vote when he knows it will have no effect on the outcome.
Sorry, but this is an attempt at lining the pockets of the union organizers. There is nothing that a modern-day union provides to it members. Unions are oppressive, big-brother organizations that prevent individual achievement. You are beholden to their word and are forced to join if you want to work in a field where they have control. They played an important role in protecting workers back in the day, but are now corrupt dinosaurs that provide no measurable benefit to it's members or society.
Bloggers are a bunch of blowhards who couldn't make it in the industry. The often cite no sources and frankly spread BS all over the internet with no accountability. Bloggers are the biggest propagandists of all. Personally, I'm tired of hearing people cite some blogger as a legitimate source of information without doing their own non-blogger research. To see this in it full glory, take a look at digg.com. It is the biggest example of a bunch of wanna-be bloggers spreading their feces-ridden content out to the masses, who willingly take in every putrid morsel, then pronounce how anti-establishment they are. They are just tools of tools.