• The New York Times, Monday, February 14, 2011 3:15 PM

New York Times media writer David Carr takes on perhaps the hottest topic bedeviling journalists today: the cost of writing for free.

"The Huffington Post, social networks and traditional media may all seem like different animals, but as advertising, the mother's milk of all media, flows toward social and amateur media, low-cost and no-cost content is becoming the norm," he writes.

For those of us who make a living typing, it's all very scary, of course."

Carr ends with a pertinent reference to Mayhill Fowler, the citizen journalist whose work for HuffPo was nominated for a Pulitzer -- but garnered not a cent of revenue for the writer herself. These days she's just posting on Twitter: "The check is in the mail, Mayhill," he quips.

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