By now we have all heard the
rumors that Kos is going to be laying off most of the front-page bloggers. While outsourcing the front-page commentary to India may be economical, and we are today competing in a global marketplace, I have to speak out that it is the wrong thing to do. Aren't we all willing to pay a little more, to know that our opinions are being shaped by good old American bloggers right here in the US of A?
The front-page writing is not the only important blog labor issue. The dKos management has lately floated the idea of restructuring the mojo system. Friends, this threatens to wipe out our existing mojo ALTOGETHER. We should have contractually obligated annual mojo increases, so we don't need to worry about the loss of mojo due to restructuring. For many of us, our blogging on this site is the only source of mojo for our entire families. Don't let them take that away from us.
Finally, these issues are not limited to dKos. With the proliferation of cheap, fly-by-night blogs many us of find our fortunes left to the winds of fate. It has created a cutthroat competition among bloggers, all just trying to make a decent wage. How many times has your hard-written diary been scrolled off the list by a frenzy of Guckert-Pope-Schiavo rants? When was the last time you made the recommended list? Brothers and sisters, we need to be banding together, not letting the webmasters turn us against each other, working in sub-sustenance conditions. Why, on my keyboard alone, half the keys are covered in pizza grease and the other half in spilled Jolt cola residue! Is this the kind of conditions you want your children to blog in?
And blog they will -- the average blogger age has dived to only 16 years old. Many of those are in third-world countries, blogging on TRS-80s for a few nickels a day. We need to enforce a minimum standard of treatment for bloggers the world over, to level the playing field and Let AmericaBlog be AmericaBlog Again.
I hereby announce the formation of Local 90210, Bloggers Union of the Communications Workers of America. (Actually all this was intended as a tip of the hat to the CWA, who I believe produced an absolutely terrific social security ad I heard on the radio a few days ago, with regular people talking about what a scam and joke Bush's privatization plan is. It was absolutely compelling and just terrific. I'm 90% sure they said it was produced by the CWA, but can't find it on their site or on the internets anywhere -- maybe the Radio Workers of America are a little quicker on the draw than the Internet Workers of America? Anyway, I got a little carried away with my little joke. But if you want to comment on something legitimate, tell me what you think of the CWA, a relatively young union as I understand it, and the steps they're taking.)
So come on, ladies and gentlemen, bloggers and blogettes... um.. whatever, bloggers and more bloggers! Join hands and sing with me all together:
We will not, We will not be moved!
We will not, We will not be moved,
just like a slacker standing by the water-cooler,
We will not be moved!
front pagers sing!:
We are Kos and Armando together, we will not be moved,
We are Plutonium Page and DavidNYC, we will not be moved
just like a troll stuck in hidden comments,
We will not be moved!
All you lurkers, now:
We will not, we will not be moved
We will not, we will not be moved
Just like the pent-up bowels of Tucker Carlson
WE WILL NOT BE MOVED!
EVERYONE:
We will not we will not be moved
We will not we will not be moved
Just like a cached copy of Guckert's male escort service ad
We will not be moved!!!
Join up today and remember ---
KEEP AMERICA BLOGGIN'!