HuffPo Takes Time to Lecture Writer It Never Took Time to Pay
In your wide-ranging Tuesday media column: HuffPo lashes out at
an unpaid former writer, NBC's worth revealed, Reuters wants to
be like us, and Jay Rosen tells a story.    • Uh oh, the HuffPo
is STRIKING BACK against Mayhill Fowler, the unpaid citizen
journalist who publicly declared she was quitting writing for
HuffPo because they wouldn't pay her. "How do you resign from a
job you never had?" HuffPo asks. Bitchy! Well that was the
argument itself, wasn't it? "At the end of the day, Mayhill
Fowler asked for a paid position; we chose not to offer her one.
Nothing new media or old media about that." Fair enough! So why
put out a statement at all, when that fact was never in dispute?
"One recommendation: in the future, she should refrain from
publishing private emails with her editors without their
permission. This happens to be both an old media and a new media
ground rule." Haha. A ground rule in actual jobs, maybe. That
requires a paycheck.    •