• Fri, Jul 27 2007

Major TV websites have a budget

Is barelypolitical.com on your bookmarks? If it is, blogging about politics for a major TV Web site could be the gig for you. Unfortunately, we can’t offer any pay , only exposure. This gig is ideal for political junkies, students and retirees. Of course, we will link back to your site (if you have one).

You can blog at your leisure, we would just appreciate posts on a regular basis.

If interested, send your resume in the body of an e-mail, along with a writing sample or two.

We appreciate your interest.

Whoa. Back the truck up. You’re a “major” TV website and you have no money to pay a blogger? Does anyone else smell fishery? Certainly if you’re so “major” you’re bringing in some advertising dollars? Certainly if you’re major you have the numbers and the page rank to rake in the cash. This leads me to a couple of scenarios:

You’re either:

A. Bringing in some good coin and using it to pay your webmaster and yourself but feel lowly writer and bloggers deserve to work for free because they get the almighty byline.

B. A liar.

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  • http://www.singularexistence.com Leslie

    I’m familiar with most of the major political blogs and I’ve never heard of them. So I’m going with Option B.

  • Maureen

    What’s a ‘TV Web site’? Is it affiliated with a television network? Shouldn’t they say which one? It looks like a pro-Obama college project.

  • dave fragments

    It’s behind curtain “A” –
    They are the Obama Girls (of the video) trying to create a political blog of less than stellar import. What a joke.

  • http://marilynsroyalblog.blogspot.com Marilyn

    My vote is for A.

    I actually applied to a big online magazine looking for bloggers. They offered no payment. The exposure (with lack of by-line) was supposed to be enough. I ‘reminded’ them, by name, about their major advertisers, and that because of these names, and because they are such a professional, reputable site, that they could surely afford to pay their contributors.

    Why are people so cheap?