Media cartels are stealing writers works;-( www.newslibrary.com

Media cartels are unilaterally seizing and abrogating to themselves writers works! And writers are out of work and you'll be reading shopping-mall news! That's it! I wrote this in 2002 and my goodness I was right!

Example:
U write an article. U sell 1 time rights to publish to the N.Y.T., After publication, the rights and your work is returned to U. A living can be made only if you can re-spin (re-sell) the article/s to other publications. This is how it's always been. It's changing big time and quick!

Gone:
Now...before the article ever get back to you...you find they have been sold to Nexis who sold them to Northern Light, who now sold them to www.newslibrary.com and so on...without any further compensation to the creator(U)of the works. Locating your work is only half the battle...the other half is getting it back from the cartels.

Finding their work is half the Battle:
Writers can only locate their work by name and title. The outlook for writers is bleak. Their chances of ending up like Little Richard is great!

The Big Time Players: Economic coup d'etat:
Today, the people who dictate writers and all of us... economic lives lead a neoteric industry melding the once -seperate corporate powers of publishing, cable, telephone, computing, consumer electronics, broadcast and entertainment. It's more than a vast monopoly. Journalist Aulatte, termed this combination a global version of Japanese "keiretsu." A web of companies investing in each other, do business with each other and divide up the world to the exclusion of all others. Like You and Me.

The New Bosses:
These new media barons don't give a damn about the quaint craft of writing. Writers are content providers and they want control of the content from creation to sale, from today to eternity. Those barons own the pipelines that carry the content, all broadcast and communication networks and "You can compare the confusion surrounding electronic superhighway bandwagon to the days of the CA gold rush." It's chaos. The rules are being applied as the "thing" moves along...Operating within this chaos are the monopoly building newspaper bosses.

Boot Camp:
Denver Post owner Dave Singelton, recently (meaning around 2002) bought 139 newspapers in 6 regions. This is what he calls, "corporate strategy of content development and poll readers...then give them what they want! The newsroom, as well as business office, play a part in empire building. Invest heavy in marketing."

Singelton's MO is similar to Gannett's "News 2002" program, which sends reporters to shopping malls to ask shoppers what they want to read. Knight-Ridder's version has reporters role-playing affluent readers and imagining their needs, all in line with the company slogan, "The customer is our obsession!"

As long as writers still own their content...you still have a chance of reading news instead of what Mr. Singelton is advocating. Shopping Mall News.

I use to write articles, send them to a newspaper with a note giving them one time rights to publish my brain storm. I either received a reject note w/ my article/s or a check in the mail. w/ a copy of the published work/s. Fenito! Believe u me...I got more rejects than checks. One day I'm going to post the hundreds of rejects from editors.

When the contracts started to arrived I stopped writing. I will post them at a later date. They are worth reading. Right now I'm so pissed off. I found 2 of my articles and they are being sold at newslibrary.com

even though I had an agreement with the editor in writing """Krista: you must sign an unaltered contract." (I crossed some of the paragraphs out of the original contract in hopes it would be overlooked) I will NOT resell your story or art---or keep them for that matter. They have been purged from our system. Please sign the new contract---or if you must---call me 1-800-688-4802 ext. 9560"""

The Plain Dealer Travel Editor David G. Molyneaux

To: David G. Molyneaux...

Now what’s the heck is going on? I saw a carnival of cut-and-paste articles sold at www.newslibrary.com without any compensation to the author/s! Davy...That can’t be right!…
And, who’s that? Are you the guy with a bucket of glue and 234 scissors…then 345 staplers and lots of articles? Ohhhh busted!!!!!!!!! ;-( Please cut-and-paste responsibly before you sell your soul! Don’t drink and cut-and-paste, because chances are you’ll forget your little notes of promise "I will NOT sell your story or your art." Please cut-and-paste in moderation. Cut-and-paste is proven to cause heart problems, regardless of your age, gender, race, or natural origin. And finally Davy...YOU will go to Hell if you don’t set things right between you and me and all the authors you so royally fucked over.

Absolutely Krista

Plagiarists Nightmare
Copyrights Highway Patrol
Founder of WITA Who-Is-The-Author? And WATA Criminal Justice System

P.S. David... try to muster what little pep you can stir up in your sorry self and explain!

Are U thinking what I think your thinking? Lo0o0ol U know what I think your thinking?

Left handed Cont:

Actually Neanderthals were the most flexible. They invented ambidextrous tools suitable for either hand; cups, flutes, bow&arrows, axes, pails.......

But the Bible is the real meany here. The Bible is militantly right-handed and takes every opportunity to equate left-handedness with evil.

And the Romans. They invented the right-handed handshake and the fascist salute!!!

In my not so humble opinion I think LEFT HANDED PEOPLE are GENIUS;-)

Just look at the problems we face: Left-handed violinists, guitarists, banjoists, etc., must restring their instruments. Left-handed saxophonists simply don't exist. Gum wrapper openers are right-handed. And so are apple corers. Scissors are right-handed. Can openers are right-handed. And so are wrist watches. Some semi-automatics can scoop out your eyeball if fired left-handed. Tools can be a real menace for left-handers. Frying pans are a real nuisance since the pouring lip is always on the wrong side.

***************************A Lefthanded Manifesto!*********************************
Be it resolved that all LEFT-THINKING citizens, mindful that their BIRTHLEFT has been denied them,...shall henceforth stand up for their LEFTS! We call upon each one of them to support this BILL OF LEFTS, and specifically to... BUY LEFT! PATRONIZE LEFT! ACT LEFT! EAT LEFT! RELAX LEFT! WRITE LEFT! INSIST ON LEFT-HANDED CHECK BOOKS! ONLY BUY AN ENGLISH CAR AND GET A LEFT-HANDED GEARSHIFT FREE!

AMEN

"Peace" OuT and to the LEFT

Dahab, Egypt...

""""Sharm el sheikh-Dahab... What a beautiful place!""""


Yeah...if you like to see Egyptians running about in Lederhosen!

My stay with the Berbers in the Toubkal Mountains

My 4 month stay with the Berbers in the village of Imzik, in the Toubkal Mountains, was filled with drama, anger, frustration and pain...but also love and laughter.
They are Muslims. I am not. Yet they welcomed me with incredible generosity and warmth and treated me with almost embarrassing kindness. I say "embarrassing kindness" because I had moments where I flipped out and I'm surprised they didn't throw me out.
On my way home I visited friends and family in Strasbourg and Frysland as well as here in New York. It's a reminder of how short life is, not to sound maudlin but it's a fact. As diseases creep in, with a minimum of notice, suddenly you look around and find near and dear people falling through cracks, fighting for their lives, or deep in hostile paranoia. When you only see the people you love every so often, changes are large and remind you of the time you haven't spent together, as entire important chunks of people's lives pass by while you're occupied elsewhere.
But it's time to go again. That old restlessness is a pang in my solar plexus, my mind is mental mush, and snaps to attention only when far away concerns shout.

I am planning to return to Africa or the Middle East. I think we don't get to choose the places that feel like home...that feeling just might hit you anywhere. I can't figure it out...it makes no sense at all.

Sinai and Wagar

Wagar wrote: "I had read that the Bedouins in the Sinai are desperate for help with their young people, who allegedly are guilty of bombing resorts, smuggling and causing violence. "

I have been with the Bedouins. I pitched my tent with them. I shared meals with them. I rode a friecken camel (I don't like those beasts) with them through the desert where some places remain a law unto themselves...even today. And yes it did occur to me that my life was in the Bedouins hands and my ass was at the camels mercy. I'm here to tell you that the Bedouins are a kind and generous people but the camel can go and take a hike on the new highway!

"are guilty of smuggling"LOOOOOOOOOoooooooL NOOoooooooo! Not the Bedouins. My mother smuggles for goodness sakes. Every little old lady standing in a post office line in Europe smuggles. Anything from chocolate, to new clothing, to banned books, and who knows???????

"allegedly are guilty of bombing resorts, smuggling and causing violence" NO! It's the Russian mafia! It's the Luristan thugs! :P :lol:

For the Bedouins who live in the desert everyday survival takes up all their time. Bombing resorts is extremely time consuming. But the most important point: Tourism, resorts, hotels, diving centers, are bringing income to the Bedouins. They may be illiterate by western standards but being hunters they know a good thing when they smell it.

"Destruction of natural resources and littering is a world-wide problem."
"Mt. Everest is littered with the trash."
"outer space with all sorts of metal objects floating around"

Wagar...I have read your posts and you sound like an intelligent educated person. But to compare the destruction of natural resources with littering is down right ignoramus. To compare Mt. Everest and outer space with the health hazzards of the Sinai with a human population I suppose is due to inexperience and lack of knowledge.

"Over-population is the number one problem in my view"
I agree. The tourist population in the Sinai continues to swell with an infrastructure that has not kept up with development. Ok! I'm feeling a brain drain coming on. In short:
Sinai...add an over-populated tourist industry... mix sewage with water...add desert winds and you will come up with sands polluted by garbage and sewage waste. Enter Dr. Waheed Halim Doss!

"You reep what you sow" (is that from the Bible?)

I'm on to you Wagar;-)