[Air-L] WGA strike

[NANCY MCDONALD-KNWRTHY]

There are also quite a few writers of and on the web who make quite a bit of money... I used to be one of them... technical writers for businesses (mine was telecom).  All the work I did went to our website (*but Intranet) where all the standards of the operations for our data centers were published.  I was sort of the department librarian as well as the writer.  It just wasn't visible to anyone but the company (which was/is huge and worldwide.)  Alas, I traded it all for the world of poverty-er- graduate school

Nancy McDonald-Kenworthy, GA
CSTW Writing Center Tutor
www.cstw.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Baron <webbaron at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 5:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Air-L] WGA strike

> While, I do agree with Barry on the entitlements issue and find 
> the strike
> to be fully justifiable, to be honest i doubt it is going to be 
> successful.There are currently many Web writers who do not happen 
> to be memebers of the
> Writers Guild. Chances are they will be prepared to work for 
> little money
> just to "put their foot in" and get published. Unfortunately, the 
> perceptionof the Web writing as non-commercial still appears to be 
> very strong in the
> writers' community. Hopefully, this will turn around one day (and 
> the strike
> may make this day come sooner rather than later).
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/4/08, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> >
> > 1. It's sad when the person criticizing the Writers Guild has 
> grammatical> trouble herself.
> >
> > 2. The logic is even sadder. As I understand it, she is saying 
> the writers
> >
> > are not morally obligated to a reasonable share because they 
> didn't back a
> > tangentially related law 10 years ago. By the same logic, only 
> workers who
> > voted for Bill Clinton should be entitled to union protection.
> >
> > YMMV
> > Barry Wellman
> > 
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