“We went to our writers before beginning to post last year and the response was overwhelming. Go ahead and post. Yet, less than one year later, the reaction to our possible withdrawal was just as decisive in the opposite direction. As publisher, I fully endorse that decision.”
Bill Lasarow, publisher and co-editor of ArtScene, explains his motivation for starting a writers’ strike against the Huffington Post (which we reported on last week).
In addition to his discomfort that the work of 9,000 unpaid contributors has helped the company make over $300 million, Lasarow says the website fails to distinguish between “serious journalism” and “opinion and a press release.”
