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."

Comments

Unionizing

[Nimey]

Who first reads that word as something to do with electric charge?

My opinion of bloggers (and WGA writers)

[billcopc]

Here's what I have to say to bloggers and WGA writers : stop whining or get a real job.

This may seem hypocritical as I am a blogger myself (just as a hobby / public disservice). What good could a blogger union possibly bring to the world ? What are they going to do, threaten Google with strikes ? Google doesn't give a flying fuck. They pay (or don't pay) their Adsense dues and that's the end of it. If you want more money, go back to your day job at Best Buy.

And how exactly do they plan on charging their dues ? Are they going to try and tax non-union bloggers too ? Are they going to kidnap and murder naysayers, then blame it on the Jewish community ?

Oh wait, did I offend a whole swath of lower humans there ? My bad. It's just that with any sufficiently large group of people with significant financial interests, corruption is inevitable. Bloggers are fine as they currently are, they already hold up together quite well through conventional networking. They don't need a formal union to smear its foul excrement all over the blogosphere.

You have succinctly summed up leftist folly

[unassimilatible]

Another money-grubbing group wanting to milk anything creative for any possible dollar it may earn, while making use of and promoting imaginary property. What happened to unions being for the working class person getting stepped on by big business?

So let me get this straight: The "working class person" who is offered a job - to take or leave at his own choice - by the entrepreneur, the guy(s) who raised all the capital and took all the risk and created all the job for people too scared or unskilled or dim-witted to start their own businesses, then demands more money for less work through legal collusion (aka, a union), when big business is not allowed to collude (antitrust), it's the worker that is getting "stepped on." No, not the investor who laid down the money, it's the worker bee who thinks the world owes him a living.

But some internet writers eschew working for someone else and then whining about it, and instead go plant their own flag in the world to try to take care of themselves, they are the money grubbers. Got it.

This is how the libs think: They poo-poo on the very individualism and self-reliance that built America and which pays for all of their ridiculous welfare state programs, while championing the herd of worker bees who decided not to improve their skills or education or take the risk, all the while collectively bargaining them out of their jobs (see: airline industry, auto industry).

Fuck

[wdr1]

Does this mean I'll be obligated to join & fork over 10% of income?

Anyone have a ha'penny?

Re:No surprise there

[khallow]

Just think, with a bloggers' union, you could be set for the rest of your life with that dribble of wisdom! Alas, the Man is holding back the supply of magical pink unicorns and preventing our dreams and hopes from being realized.