Well, we can’t prove it, exactly, but we’re willing to bet that the dearth of dialogue in porn lately, as reported by (seriously) The New York Times, is related to an unwillingness to pay writers. It sounds a lot like what the Internet did to the print media: In porn’s case, when hand-held cams got [...]
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Newsflash!: When writers need to be paid, even porn suffers
Posted in Newsflash!, Uncategorized on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Newsflash!: If you don’t pay your employees, sometimes they steal (really rare, valuable, Civil War era) stuff
Posted in Newsflash! on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Newsflash is an occasional item for quirky tidbits about unpaid labor and its consequences–regardless of whether the journalist writing the tidbit we quote gets paid or not. Today, from an AP story about how a (grown up!) unpaid intern ended up embittered–and imprisoned: A 40-year-old National Archives intern in Philadelphia stole 160 Civil War documents [...]
