The Newspaper Guild is joining with the unpaid bloggers at the Huffington Post, calling on them to withhold content. In a letter that calls the Post’s practice of publishing the work of unpaid writers “unprofessional and unethical,” the newspaper union outlined demands, including a pay schedule and the clear separation of editorial content from advertising. Arianna Huffington mocked the idea of a strike earlier this month, saying, “Go ahead, go on strike,” and that “no one really notices.”
Posted at 7:08 AM, Mar 18, 2011
Arianna Huffington can no longer act as if she is ‘Progressive’ while practicing like the acolyte of Milton Friedman that she is.The mask of that ‘Progressivism’ has been forcefully removed by the sale to AOL. Ms. Huffington is an Empire Builder, pure and simple: the reality of Capitalism, of the ‘Free Market’ is as unpleasant as the images it produces are seductive and winning.
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