The burning question: Is there a need
for a blogger's labor union?
And your first thought, like mine,
is quite likely, "huh?"
Labor unions are for steel workers
and teachers, underpaid, over-skilled
and overworked, who need collective
bargaining power just to avoid a return
the 19th Century sweat-shop economy
– that, and the ability to feed
their kids.
(Note: I chose steel workers and teachers
as examples only because the two make
up about two-thirds of my own family.
So that means, in general, I am pro-union,
and by default, pro-American-made automobile.)
In the past two years, blogging, as
a profession, has grown from geeky obscurity
into a direct challenge to the journalism
industry even with bloggers' reputation
for being unruly, unvetted, grammatically
and syntactically insufficient, and
above all, a disorganized mess.
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