The ILCA's proposal is quite a bit broader than simply funding writers. It includes the production of a wide range of labor media including radio and television.
The ILCA proposal may be found at this link:
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&s id=1288&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Greg Boozell gboozell at juno.com
Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes:
> The International Labor Communications Association, the professional
>
> organization of labor communicators in North America whose members
> produce publications with a total circulation in the tens of
> millions, says that the "National Labor Media Is within Reach,"
> financially speaking:
> <http://www.ilcaonline.org/images/reachlg.gif>.
>
> Instead of spending money on the Democratic Party, organized labor
> could be spending it on writers.
>
> >Jon Johanning wrote:
> >
> >>I wonder, in fact, how the economic situation of the average
> >>non-fiction writer (especially on political subjects, and
> especially
> >>on political subjects from a left standpoint) has changed between
> >>before the internet and after it. Were they living like kings and
> >>queens before?
> >
> >Hardly - but now we've got scabs on the net giving it away!
> >
> >Doug
>
> Do people who read blogs buy fewer books than those who don't? Or
> do
> people who begin to read blogs buy fewer books than they used to? I
>
> doubt either is the case. Most likely, bloggers (except bloggers
> who
> get their blogs optioned into books and/or movies, like Salam Pax,
> Belle de Jour, Washingtonienne) are not professional writers'
> competitors but rather their volunteer advertising agents. The more
>
> your book gets talked about by people who are not paid by you to
> advertise it, the more copies of it are likely to move. Imagine Kos
>
> falling in love with your next book and featuring it on the front
> page of DailyKos for a month. That won't be as good as getting
> interviewed on broadcast TV, but it sure can't hurt the book sales.
>
> Have you taken a look at Rob Walker's December 5, 2004 article about
>
> "BuzzAgents" in the New York Times Magazine: "The Hidden (In Plain
> Sight) Persuaders"? If you haven't, read it, and so should John
> Mage
> and other editors of left-wing publications reading this.
>
> >Well, at least the quality of most of the free political commentary
>
> >on offer on the net doesn't match the printed stuff -- at least so
>
> >far!
> >
> >Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
>
> That's where the question of social labor comes in. Writers minus
> good editors are very rarely readable, much less marketable.
>
> The majority of blogs (probably more than 90% of them) are very
> personal journals chronicling writers' thoughts and feelings about
> their families, friends, acquaintances, bosses, co-workers, and
> (inevitably) bad dates. It's like talking to strangers at bars and
>
> bus stops about your life. Many people find it easier to confide in
>
> total strangers than those who are closer to them and might be
> tempted to use their secrets against them.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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