[Borogravia]

No, I think the author has every right to be insulted and angry over the presumption that he should work for free. Just saying "well, that's the way it is" is intellectually lazy, and portraying a dominant middleman like HuffPo as a healthy part of a genuinely free market is simply wrong.

[autokad]

i disagree. the huff has a business model weather you like it or not. clearly the value proposition doesn't fit what the writer wants, but can you blame huff for asking? thats like being insulted because the ugly guy at the bar asked you out. what ever feelings you have from it are justified, but this writer goes and blogs online about their 'experience' wanting sympathy and traffic.

so yeah, the writer wants your business and what they offered was them complaining that they had a job offer that did not pay.