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.
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.
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
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?
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