Media Companies Cash In, at Cost of Unpaid Contributors – NYTimes.com

At Media Companies, a Nation of Serfs

Facebook, Twitter and The Huffington Post have done well for themselves using unpaid contributors. It’s enough to make a professional writer nervous.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/business/media/14carr.html

at the beginning of last week, The Huffington Post agreed to be sold for $315 million to AOL.

The funny thing about all these frothy millions and billions piling up? Most of the value was created by people working free.