http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/30/scary-prospects-for-newspapers-thomson-reuters-ceo/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:50:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/30/scary-prospects-for-newspapers-thomson-reuters-ceo/#comment-17434 Fri, 30 May 2008 23:43:11 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/30/scary-prospects-for-newspapers-thomson-reuters-ceo/#comment-17434 The agencies are famous for underpaying photographers. The current low rates are not much help to guys trying to make a living. There ought to be a better model one that works for the journalist. Like one big union covering all the media people phone operators, electricians, writers, secretaries, web lackies, camera folk, editors, drivers, translators, gofers, artists. It would be best to start in the Middle East where rates are at starvation and oppression at the max. The agencies are famous for underpaying photographers. The current low rates are not much help to guys trying to make a living. There ought to be a better model one that works for the journalist.
Like one big union covering all the media people phone operators, electricians, writers, secretaries, web lackies, camera folk, editors, drivers, translators, gofers, artists. It would be best to start in the Middle East where rates are at starvation and oppression at the max.

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