From “Maura” in her post titled “What?”
( Maura, Ryan Brown, this is for you)
Maybe the salaries in journalism are low because they implicitly pre-empt a collective penalty for all transgressions in the writing community. In other words, maybe all writers get a little more unpaid because of the unprofessionalism of a few.
Rachelle, I respect the site you’ve built, but I have to be honest: This statement is complete and utter crap. Every job—no matter what the level of pay!—has its slackers. Writing as a vocation has a lower pay threshold in its entry levels because it’s (somehow, haha) glamorous, and as a result people who already have money, and who can thus afford to take a pittance, do so—
This was obviously a tongue-in-cheek comment, playing off the earlier remark of Foster’s work not living up to that of a paid writer, and one that any dutiful reader would have caught. Next time, I will try and spell.it.out.for.you. Apparently you were too busy critiquing my “prose” in regards to bracketing:
(And perhaps it’s nitpicking of me to also point out that someone speaking in her position as “editor” should also edit her own prose, but accusing someone of using straw-man arguments and then comparing said accusee to FOX News in the same breath would have certainly drawn a bracketed note from me.)
Read the rest HERE if you are so inclined.
