How Is a HuffPo Striker Like an L.A. Comedian?
Some contributors to the Huffington Post have decided it’s time to stop giving away their work for free. That might sound snort-worthy — yeah, right. Good luck with that. By this point, “content” is so widely devalued in many corners of the Internet that the writers may have little chance of squeezing any change out of the Post.
But writer Michael Walker points to a successful precedent. In The Los Angeles Times, Walker draws a parallel to a comedians’ strike in the ’70s that persuaded Los Angeles’s legendary Comedy Store comedy club to start paying previously unpaid comedians for their performances.
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