In publishing virtually all of the editorial production is done by freelancers, and this has been the case for decades.
Editorial freelancers means:
editors, sometimes even developmental editors
copyeditors
layout people
type designers
cover designers
proofreaders
translators
copy writers (ad writing)
typesetters (of course)
The only in-house personnel (that is, pulling a salary) at publishing houses is acquisition edtiors, and maybe production editors (PEs).
Oh, and the ME (managing editor).
And the PEs may also be freelancers these days. That is, the one who actually communicates with the author.
IOW, all of these people are independent contractors.
In addition, editorial production of many books, especially those published by university presses, is now farmed out to book packagers. Same deal as above, but these people pay independent contractors even less than bona fide book publishers with bona fide imprints.
Wow, I just watched this.
Thanks so much for making it available. I don’t have TV.
Holy smokes. Things are scarier than I realized. It feels like the time has come to get out of the USA.
Tulsi’s comments are OK, but somehow not nailing the situation.
How can she blandly speak about “our votes” when the whole genesis of the current situation is a contested election, the pretext of the crackdown is questioning the election results. It almost felt like she was pulling punches a bit, sticking with bland platitudes instead of zeroing in on what has happened and is actually happening.
To her credit she in on the record for strong advocacy of breaking up the tech monopolies. But her focusing on Dem politicians colluding with tech giants in return for donations is I think missing the point. Obviously the quid pro quo is not donations but control of the communication space. They—tjhe colluders, politicians and tech giants— don’t even have to talk about money: it was obvious from Obama’s campaigns that Silicon Valley was massaging things to benefit Obama. Same with Zuck the the Eff. Amazon presumably loses money by denying major clients AWS. So what is in this for them? Well, Bezos owns the WaPo as well as all the server space. What does he want? Who knows? Does anyone know?
I expect it has to do with the prospect of total naked power. The pols are crazy to play with the tech giants because the latter will soon be replacing them. Or perhaps already have. Running the country, and the world. These are true monsters. They are like robots. Frankensteins. We are actually living a horror movie.
Very glad to see that clip regarding Ohio. I had forgotten or perhaps never knew about (see above, no TV) the contestation of the Ohio results in Congress. But I was working for Kerry in Maine, and when we went to bed exhausted at 1:30 a.m. on Nov 7 or whatever it was that year, Kerry was definitely well ahead.
When we woke up a few hours later and turned on the motel TV, Bush was the president-elect!
I’ll never forget the shock of that. Of course it was Ohio. Of course that was one of the first time that those who called out obvious hanky-panky with the Diebold machines, with polling places where minority voters waited for hours, were labeled conspiracy theorists—by David Corn, writing in the Nation. I’ll never forget it.
Learning of the overnight reverses of fortune in five swing states on Nov. 4, all in the same time frame and in the same manner, sure caused a case of PTSD.
Tucker’s show should be mandatory watching by every supporter of Joe Biden who put down nonstop on anyone who tried to warn of the dangers of a Biden win or even tried to discuss others’ views. And I mean mandatory a la Clockwork Orange–eye lids pinned open.
Well, sorry for ranting. I am so shocked by the contents of Tucker’s show and the extent of the corporate crackdown, I am kind of speechless.
Oh, one other thing: One of my naive relatives kept saying, “Let’s just get things back to normal with Biden.” Biden himself looked like a cadaver in that clip about how Republican lawmakers are Nazis. He even gave a little “gee whiz” chuckle as he came out with that comment. The guy is really in bad shape. i expect Obama is the puppet master winding him up.
Carlson doesn’t believe the election was rigged, or most likely… he does know but he doesn’t want a target painted on his back. Either way, needless to say that his duplicitous position didn’t go down well with the “deplorables”, so he’s been more or less written-off by them since then. Hence, the few comments here and I’d suspect pretty much everywhere. His ratings had plummeted no doubt, as well.
Carlson said a number of things that have to be said.
What is “duplicitous”?
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To expect him suddenly to be parroting The Saker or commenters on this blog is unreasonable.
Recently a friend to whom I suggested that she go outside the MSM and the NYT for news and analysis —to some alternative and foreign websites and blogs–accused me of looking for “the perfect news outlet.”
I was nonplused! This actually seemed to be what *she* was looking for. One source of news that doesn’t disturb her at all.
I thought Carlson’s show the following evening, Jan. 12, with both Glenn Greenwald and Glen Beck, was even better and more important. We are seeing Trump and “Trumpsters; Trumpians; Trumpeters” used as a pretext to clamp down on the First Amendment. It was, actually, the first time I saw Carlson really angry. Granted I don[t have TV so don’t watch him every night. But it certainly took me by surprised. Who else is standing up for the First Amendment ?
Regarding TC’s “failure” to pronounce on election fraud, the whole point of suppressing any evidence or even allowing the subject as a theoretical topic is of course to remove it totally from discourse.
What did you want him to say? You seem to be saying (also for others) that failure to say exactly what you want is reason for excoriation.
We sure are not going to get very far on that route. It sure is hard to respect such a picky, fickle audience.
Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just passing-on what I’m witnessing/reading in multiple platforms. The people – the average Joes – are in no mood to be messed around on the subject of election fraud. And that was my point, in my previous post.
Now, and from what I’m reading from your post, Carlson clutching his pearls at the crack-down on “free” speech, or the inbound persecution of the MAGA people and other dissenters as “terrorists” it’s all well and good, but it truly does no good whatsoever if you don’t address the genesis of it all which is: the shameless election fraud and its cover-up by the whole establishment.
Most (all?) of the authors on this site; PCR, Pepe, Ramin, Saker himself (etc) acknowledge the election skulduggery and they’ve based their opinion pieces on that (plus subsequent events) which is the only honest way to address this issue. Carlson didn’t do that and that’s what people are taking issue with – …and also, for the looks of it (I don’t follow him), he appears to be only dealing with the aftermath while avoiding central problem that started it all.
It’s a bit like, a lot like it in fact, back in the day discussing the Patriot Act and the illegal wars that followed without ever mentioning or even hinting that 9-11 was an inside job. You’ll never get a clear analysis on the repercussions brought forth by 9-11, if you don’t acknowledge the fact that is was all intentional – criminally intentional to begin with.
“What did you want him to say? You seem to be saying (also for others) that failure to say exactly what you want is reason for excoriation.”
Me? Personally? I don’t “want” him to say anything. Again: I don’t follow him. But if it was up to me – which it isn’t – I’d expect him, as a news-caster – one who made his name by going to places others fear to tread, non the less – to report on the big story that unfolded from November the 4th till late December 2020, and that was: the mounting piles of evidence of election fraud. There literally wasn’t any other bigger news, bigger story happening at that time.
Malcolm X: “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it.”
I took was surprised that Navalny was quoted. But then again, i was surprised that Navalny had spoken up at all on this current situation before I saw him on Carlson’s show. I had totally lost track of Navalny. Who are his minders?
This constant ad hominem manner of thinking is not helping anyone. Actually, I don’t think TC “made him out” to be much of anything.
It may be that the only reason Tucker is allowed to get away with keeping his show is that he has to include certain items. The Navalny bit might be the required quid pro quo. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Carlson’s offices at Fox. He is not perfect but he seems to be the only voice “we” have in the mainstream media.
One of our current problems in the USA is that we are reduced, in “our democracy,” to similar interpretive feats as the citizens of the USSR who tried to figure out what was going on and who was really in charge by parsing about the lineup of photos of the Politiburo members.
As Glenn Greenwald points out in his recent article (focouosing on the coordinated takedown of Parler)—
If you imagine Tucker doesn’t read from a Global Covid Elite teleprompter, even if they are just having fun at our expense, well…
And what does he read, pray tell us.
Thierry Meyssan’s article on the coup, election and suppression.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article211909.html
https://www.voltairenet.org/article211917.html
English version
Tucker, the people at corporations like Simon & Schuster who make decisions like not publishing Senator Hawley’s book do NOT sit in “little cubicles”.
They sit in gigantic corner offices with thick carpets and vast expensive desks.
It’s the editors and production people who do the actual work who sit in little cubicles. If they even get an office – many of them work from home.
In publishing virtually all of the editorial production is done by freelancers, and this has been the case for decades.
Editorial freelancers means:
editors, sometimes even developmental editors
copyeditors
layout people
type designers
cover designers
proofreaders
translators
copy writers (ad writing)
typesetters (of course)
The only in-house personnel (that is, pulling a salary) at publishing houses is acquisition edtiors, and maybe production editors (PEs).
Oh, and the ME (managing editor).
And the PEs may also be freelancers these days. That is, the one who actually communicates with the author.
IOW, all of these people are independent contractors.
In addition, editorial production of many books, especially those published by university presses, is now farmed out to book packagers. Same deal as above, but these people pay independent contractors even less than bona fide book publishers with bona fide imprints.
Katherine
Wow, I just watched this.
Thanks so much for making it available. I don’t have TV.
Holy smokes. Things are scarier than I realized. It feels like the time has come to get out of the USA.
Tulsi’s comments are OK, but somehow not nailing the situation.
How can she blandly speak about “our votes” when the whole genesis of the current situation is a contested election, the pretext of the crackdown is questioning the election results. It almost felt like she was pulling punches a bit, sticking with bland platitudes instead of zeroing in on what has happened and is actually happening.
To her credit she in on the record for strong advocacy of breaking up the tech monopolies. But her focusing on Dem politicians colluding with tech giants in return for donations is I think missing the point. Obviously the quid pro quo is not donations but control of the communication space. They—tjhe colluders, politicians and tech giants— don’t even have to talk about money: it was obvious from Obama’s campaigns that Silicon Valley was massaging things to benefit Obama. Same with Zuck the the Eff. Amazon presumably loses money by denying major clients AWS. So what is in this for them? Well, Bezos owns the WaPo as well as all the server space. What does he want? Who knows? Does anyone know?
I expect it has to do with the prospect of total naked power. The pols are crazy to play with the tech giants because the latter will soon be replacing them. Or perhaps already have. Running the country, and the world. These are true monsters. They are like robots. Frankensteins. We are actually living a horror movie.
Very glad to see that clip regarding Ohio. I had forgotten or perhaps never knew about (see above, no TV) the contestation of the Ohio results in Congress. But I was working for Kerry in Maine, and when we went to bed exhausted at 1:30 a.m. on Nov 7 or whatever it was that year, Kerry was definitely well ahead.
When we woke up a few hours later and turned on the motel TV, Bush was the president-elect!
I’ll never forget the shock of that. Of course it was Ohio. Of course that was one of the first time that those who called out obvious hanky-panky with the Diebold machines, with polling places where minority voters waited for hours, were labeled conspiracy theorists—by David Corn, writing in the Nation. I’ll never forget it.
Learning of the overnight reverses of fortune in five swing states on Nov. 4, all in the same time frame and in the same manner, sure caused a case of PTSD.
Tucker’s show should be mandatory watching by every supporter of Joe Biden who put down nonstop on anyone who tried to warn of the dangers of a Biden win or even tried to discuss others’ views. And I mean mandatory a la Clockwork Orange–eye lids pinned open.
Well, sorry for ranting. I am so shocked by the contents of Tucker’s show and the extent of the corporate crackdown, I am kind of speechless.
Oh, one other thing: One of my naive relatives kept saying, “Let’s just get things back to normal with Biden.” Biden himself looked like a cadaver in that clip about how Republican lawmakers are Nazis. He even gave a little “gee whiz” chuckle as he came out with that comment. The guy is really in bad shape. i expect Obama is the puppet master winding him up.
Katherine
I’m kind of surprised that there are so few comments here.
Are people getting cautious?
Hooray for Tucker Carlson.
Katherine
@ Katherine:
Carlson doesn’t believe the election was rigged, or most likely… he does know but he doesn’t want a target painted on his back. Either way, needless to say that his duplicitous position didn’t go down well with the “deplorables”, so he’s been more or less written-off by them since then. Hence, the few comments here and I’d suspect pretty much everywhere. His ratings had plummeted no doubt, as well.
– TL2Q
I’m sorry, I don’t follow your point.
Carlson said a number of things that have to be said.
What is “duplicitous”?
‘
To expect him suddenly to be parroting The Saker or commenters on this blog is unreasonable.
Recently a friend to whom I suggested that she go outside the MSM and the NYT for news and analysis —to some alternative and foreign websites and blogs–accused me of looking for “the perfect news outlet.”
I was nonplused! This actually seemed to be what *she* was looking for. One source of news that doesn’t disturb her at all.
I thought Carlson’s show the following evening, Jan. 12, with both Glenn Greenwald and Glen Beck, was even better and more important. We are seeing Trump and “Trumpsters; Trumpians; Trumpeters” used as a pretext to clamp down on the First Amendment. It was, actually, the first time I saw Carlson really angry. Granted I don[t have TV so don’t watch him every night. But it certainly took me by surprised. Who else is standing up for the First Amendment ?
Regarding TC’s “failure” to pronounce on election fraud, the whole point of suppressing any evidence or even allowing the subject as a theoretical topic is of course to remove it totally from discourse.
What did you want him to say? You seem to be saying (also for others) that failure to say exactly what you want is reason for excoriation.
We sure are not going to get very far on that route. It sure is hard to respect such a picky, fickle audience.
Katherine
Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just passing-on what I’m witnessing/reading in multiple platforms. The people – the average Joes – are in no mood to be messed around on the subject of election fraud. And that was my point, in my previous post.
Now, and from what I’m reading from your post, Carlson clutching his pearls at the crack-down on “free” speech, or the inbound persecution of the MAGA people and other dissenters as “terrorists” it’s all well and good, but it truly does no good whatsoever if you don’t address the genesis of it all which is: the shameless election fraud and its cover-up by the whole establishment.
Most (all?) of the authors on this site; PCR, Pepe, Ramin, Saker himself (etc) acknowledge the election skulduggery and they’ve based their opinion pieces on that (plus subsequent events) which is the only honest way to address this issue. Carlson didn’t do that and that’s what people are taking issue with – …and also, for the looks of it (I don’t follow him), he appears to be only dealing with the aftermath while avoiding central problem that started it all.
It’s a bit like, a lot like it in fact, back in the day discussing the Patriot Act and the illegal wars that followed without ever mentioning or even hinting that 9-11 was an inside job. You’ll never get a clear analysis on the repercussions brought forth by 9-11, if you don’t acknowledge the fact that is was all intentional – criminally intentional to begin with.
“What did you want him to say? You seem to be saying (also for others) that failure to say exactly what you want is reason for excoriation.”
Me? Personally? I don’t “want” him to say anything. Again: I don’t follow him. But if it was up to me – which it isn’t – I’d expect him, as a news-caster – one who made his name by going to places others fear to tread, non the less – to report on the big story that unfolded from November the 4th till late December 2020, and that was: the mounting piles of evidence of election fraud. There literally wasn’t any other bigger news, bigger story happening at that time.
-TL2Q
I stopped watching when he got to quoting Navalny and making him out to be anyone we should listen to.
With all due respect I think that is a mistake.
Malcolm X: “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it.”
I took was surprised that Navalny was quoted. But then again, i was surprised that Navalny had spoken up at all on this current situation before I saw him on Carlson’s show. I had totally lost track of Navalny. Who are his minders?
This constant ad hominem manner of thinking is not helping anyone. Actually, I don’t think TC “made him out” to be much of anything.
It may be that the only reason Tucker is allowed to get away with keeping his show is that he has to include certain items. The Navalny bit might be the required quid pro quo. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Carlson’s offices at Fox. He is not perfect but he seems to be the only voice “we” have in the mainstream media.
One of our current problems in the USA is that we are reduced, in “our democracy,” to similar interpretive feats as the citizens of the USSR who tried to figure out what was going on and who was really in charge by parsing about the lineup of photos of the Politiburo members.
As Glenn Greenwald points out in his recent article (focouosing on the coordinated takedown of Parler)—
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56171.htm
—no one is speaking up and speaking out. certainly not the “liberals.”
By being sidetracked by Navalny you missed some important material.
I think the segment on the takedown of Parler, with an interview with the guy who started it, is after the Navalny bit.
Regards, Katherine