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Re: [GWL]: newspapers & Master Gardener columns

Gerald,

    I too notice the use of Master Gardeners as (free) garden columnists in
many newspapers. I love Master Gardeners but I have had a problem with them
in other regards too.
    In many areas, MG's have replaced the local state garden clubs. The MG's
are organized by paid state employees and the MG's themselves are often
strongly discouraged from raising any club funds. Thus I often get requests
to come and talk to MG groups but they almost never want to pay any sort of
honorarium and if they even offer to cover gas money it is unusual. The MG
groups normally have speakers who they get for nothing from the ranks of the
state extension employees.
    Garden clubs on the other hand, do fund raising and are always happy to
pay an honorarium to the speaker, and almost always try and help with travel
expenses as well.
    My problem is this: State sponsored Master Gardeners (working for free
as a hobby) ought not to be competing with  professional garden writers.

Tom
tloallergyfree@earthlink.net

----- Original Message -----
From: <GeraldB571@aol.com>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL]: newspapers


> Gene: I couldn't agree more. When the local paper dumped me no one was
left
> except the so-called garden editor, who knows less and less about
gardening,
> a Master Gardener who doesn't get paid by the paper who answers questions,
> and the one renegade who used to write only about vegetables, moved out of
> the area to northern California, and now writes about everything--he also
> signed the all-rights and forever contract with the San Diego paper (who
> dumped a bunch of us). So I've concentrated more on travel writing,
although
> I still do one newspaper.
>
> Gerald Burke
> Flower Power Columnist
> Riverside, CA
>
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