Last summer, NPR exposed the recent less-than-virtuous practices of major news publications in the U.S., which have been printing false bylines. With the advent of the Internet, it’s much more practical to outsource work to writers in countries without wage regulations.
Considering that a large amount of freelance work these days hires for a single dollar per five hundred words—what jobs are available are competitive and demanding. It may be satire, but there’s something hauntingly familiar about this fake job ad from McSweeney’s.
The preferred candidate has actually already been chosen by us, but we need to put up this ad to make everything seem “fair.” Your application will be ignored, but you might as well give it a shot because you never know.
