For myself to make any my decent money on freelance writing I better type this summary in less 5 minutes otherwise I won’t be make my benchmark measly $15 an hour.  It will be fairly poor standard of writing because I’me in sush rush to make this profession feasible.  (The spelling and grammatical errors were intentional by the way.)  Some of the articles on Yahoo read like they have been written by a ten year old.  A giant race to the bottom when it comes to quality in journalism.  This weeks reading discusses the topic of creative labour and the challenges that workers face in the creative industry.

Now that we are in the age of globalisation and digital content, it is somewhat troublesome how media agencies can now exploit and underpay workers in the name of  freelance employment.  I’m just wondering how I am meant to compete on a global scale for writing jobs against people who are willing to accept next to nothing.  I can forget a decent salary when someone from Bangladesh will do the same job for peanuts.  As long as I can do the work where I want, whenever I want.  I don’t have to go to a bricks and mortar office anymore.  I can just be a slave labourer in the luxury of my own lounge room now.  What a blessing!

The big challenge for the workers of the media industry is to try and maintain some sort of protection against exploitive behaviour practices.  The government can also help by creating laws and policies to help stem the tide. The banning of free internships could be a good start.