Interestingly! I was talking about something like this with my grandmother today. I think we get articles like the above (at least, in the US) because US Americans as a culture feel entitled to anything they want and don't value education, teaching and literacy overall. Hence, they feel that teachers should be under or unpaid, that college professors are snooty, disagreeable snobs who get paid for nothing, and writers are all rich and shiftless. This is about privileging certain kinds of work over others as well as the idea that people who don't do "real" work (that is, work that in a capitalist economy yields tangible work that yields tangible mone) should do it for the love and shut up already.
You know? I think I blame TV for this. Regardless of the fact that TV shows are paid for by advertising (as are newspapers), they were given to people initially for free -- and still are in the case of PBS and the big three networks.
I am VERY bitter and angry about this issue, can you tell? ;) I am also very, very tired as you say for exactly the same reasons as you -- having to bang out words fast while doing a day job (banging out words, too), so I know I am not exactly being coherent now. To echo a colleague of mine sitting across from me at the con where I am currently writing: "The caffiene is wearing off, so now you're getting the stupid Jo."
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Date: 2010-02-12 07:16 pm (UTC)You know? I think I blame TV for this. Regardless of the fact that TV shows are paid for by advertising (as are newspapers), they were given to people initially for free -- and still are in the case of PBS and the big three networks.
I am VERY bitter and angry about this issue, can you tell? ;) I am also very, very tired as you say for exactly the same reasons as you -- having to bang out words fast while doing a day job (banging out words, too), so I know I am not exactly being coherent now. To echo a colleague of mine sitting across from me at the con where I am currently writing: "The caffiene is wearing off, so now you're getting the stupid Jo."