5 Responses to “More Please”

1. Night Writer Says:
   May 31st, 2013 at 12:24 pm

   I think they realized they didn’t need photographers; all they need is Photoshop.

2. Greg Says:
   May 31st, 2013 at 6:29 pm

   What did media outlets like this expect to happen after alienating half their readership?

   Would it be impolite to call them idiots?

   I remember the day when I read the Strib on the bus to work and listened to MPR while cooking diner. Sure, I gritted my teeth from time to time but at least then I could read the newspaper and listen to public radio – now… not at all.

   By the way, I just got my MPR/NPR-Free Five Year Medallion. I wear it proudly.

3. Joe Says:
   May 31st, 2013 at 9:17 pm

   Perhaps they will join the calligraphers, type setters, and linotype machine operators on the picket line? They could form their own union and start their own newspaper. It’ll prove to be wildly successful and prove their point …

   I heard that the newsprint handlers just caved in negotiations …

4. Greg Says:
   June 1st, 2013 at 7:23 am

   Many years ago, during the boom days in IT, I applied for a computer programming job at the Pioneer Press. At the interview, I was stunned to learn the job was unionized and the person across the desk seemed most interested in telling me what I was not allowed to do.

   I passed on their offer to take a job at a small company where both opportunities and responsibilities were as open as I was willing to make them.

5. swiftee Says:
   June 1st, 2013 at 4:51 pm

   Those photogs are probably feeling pretty low right now, but a few will see this for what it is; freedom. Freedom to cut their own deals. Freedom to charge as much as they can get for their work.

   A few will begin really living. The rest will probably apply for a job with the city.

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