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Parent Article: IMC Now Hiring |
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Re: IMC Now Hiring |
by CatWoman
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Current rating: 0
31 Aug 2006
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When you ask to get paid for doing indymedia work, you're opening a jagged, rusty, tetanus-infested can of worms. You're sliding down that slippery slope toward compromise and mediocrity. You're selling out. More than that, you're placing a monetary value on something that can only be cheapened by the effort. How much is your integrity worth? And what will you tell contributors to the site, when they want to know why you're getting paid but they are not? Payment for media activist work opens up a hierarchy that stinks of the corporate model. This is just not the place for it, in my opinion. Asking for money changes you from a comrade-in-arms with other activists in the community and turns you into a parasite. Will you share the wages you make with the people whose stories you tell? No? Then why should they want to share their stories with you? Your motives become suspect, and people naturally begin to question what's in it for them. It's a contagious and self-sustaining disease. Please, let us not go there. |
