Never apologizing, responding to nationwide criticism, St. Augustine Record Publisher DELINDA FOGEL writes n today's Record that she intends to pay the volunteer proofreaders, not just offer a prize of a dinner for the person finding the most typos.
Good on her. Thus, I will not have to report the Record to the United States Department of Labor for nvestigation of intentinoal violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which requires that workers be paid the minimum wage.
However, I still expect the Newspaper Guild to organize the newsroom of the St. Augustine Record, and to organize every newsroom in the State of Florida.
Enough flummery, dupery and nincompoopery from anti-labor corporations like MORRIS COMMUNICATIONS, who view journalists as "human resources" to be exploited like so many head of cattle on someone's ranch.
Ms. FOGEL's rapid revision of her illegal offer in violation of the FLSA does not end the issue.
There are reportedly 11,000 unemployed American journalists, and instead of hiring one of them, she's hiring retired Englsh teachers, and others, supposedly to provide her with "data points" as to when, where and how the typos occur.
How gauche.
Better to hire an actual editor, than recruit rank amateurs to proofread.
Better to hire actual journalsts as publisers, instead of bean counters and CPAs (like Ms. FOGEL).
What do you reckon?
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