07 August, 2007

A Blogger’s Union?

Really, who thinks of such things? Time reports:

In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards.

The effort is an extension of the blogosphere’s growing power and presence, especially within the political realm, and for many, evokes memories of the early labor organization of freelance writers in the early 1980s.

Sigh. A lady named Susie Madrak has been quoted as saying that bloggers “feel a little more entitled to ask for something now.” Don’t ask what forms the basis of this sense of entitlement.

Also, someone named Leslie Robinson has said, “It would raise the professionalism. Maybe we could get more jobs, bona fide jobs.” Heh. If Mr or Ms Robinson can’t get a job on his or her own steam, then he or she doesn’t deserve a damn job. What kind of self-esteem must they have to want to rely on a pressure group, which is what a union really is, to get themselves a job?

To each his own, of course. But it’s irritating when people criticize ‘bloggers’ on the basis of what some self-important bloggers happen to get up to. Pah.

Also read: “Don’t Think In Categories.”

(Link via email from BVN.)