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06/11/2002 Entry: "Honoring Byline Strikes ?"

The Washington Post had a "byline strike" last Wednesday. I have to admit, I didn't notice at all. After all, the Post is corporate media, so their employees are about as interchangable as sparkplugs. I missed the bylines about as much as I would have missed the nametags on the counterkids at McDonald's. Which I guess in some strange, twisted way underscores the need for collective bargining.

Now what the Guild should have done is reach out to the blogging community and asked us not to link to their paper for the duration of the strike. Supporters could write their posts as normal, but instead of linking to the paper's story, they could link to some "byline strike" page somewhere for the duration of the strike. Then when the action was over, people could go update their entries to point at the expected link within the paper. It wouldn't take very many supporters to get a sizeable exposure on sites like daypop.