Tasini Doesn't Pay Contributors to His Site

Well, this is interesting: Gawker is reporting that Jonathan Tasini has a site that invites readers to contribute, but he doesn’t pay any of them. Apparently he publishes his readers comments often, and even cites them as the reason for the site’s success.

So why doesn’t he pay them? Tasini thinks that’s a ridiculous idea:

‘It hasn’t had any ads in several years, but there were a couple unions that did buy some advertising,’ he said. ‘They wanted to support the work I was doing.’

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