Comments on: New Time Inc. contract wouldn’t require web work http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/07/new-time-inc-contract-wouldnt-require-web-work/ Where TV Finds the Future Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Curt http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/07/new-time-inc-contract-wouldnt-require-web-work/#comment-517252 Curt Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:48:06 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/07/new-time-inc-contract-wouldnt-require-web-work/#comment-517252 I wish they'd just start paying freelancers for online work. Make resale harder. I've been out of it for a while. Anyone do this? I wish they’d just start paying freelancers for online work. Make resale harder. I’ve been out of it for a while. Anyone do this?

]]> By: John Proffitt http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/07/new-time-inc-contract-wouldnt-require-web-work/#comment-517043 John Proffitt Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:03:01 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/07/new-time-inc-contract-wouldnt-require-web-work/#comment-517043 I get that the union is trying to protect their workers, and in a way I kind of respect that. It's at least an honorable idea. But who wouldn't want their work to appear on the web? It's a bigger audience than print. It lasts longer than print. It's searchable, linkable, discussable that way. If you want to be "protected" from the web, go live on the prairie and write poetry or whatever. Protecting Time, Inc. writers from working on the web strikes me as the classic union blunder -- protecting workers from the future and thereby dooming the employer and all those "protected" jobs in the end. I get that the union is trying to protect their workers, and in a way I kind of respect that. It’s at least an honorable idea.

But who wouldn’t want their work to appear on the web? It’s a bigger audience than print. It lasts longer than print. It’s searchable, linkable, discussable that way. If you want to be “protected” from the web, go live on the prairie and write poetry or whatever.

Protecting Time, Inc. writers from working on the web strikes me as the classic union blunder — protecting workers from the future and thereby dooming the employer and all those “protected” jobs in the end.

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