Write Turn
Our man skippy the bush kangaroo went to show his support of the WGA strike in Hollywood, and it looks like there's going to be some more picketers out there:
it looks like the networks are going to get squeezed from all sides. the news writers for cbs have voted to go on strike. hollywood reporter:
after working without a contract for more than two years, cbs news employees represented by the wga east have approved a strike through an authorization vote.
eighty-one% of the 75%-80% of the union's rank and file who turned out in a special election thursday and friday voted to authorize the strike. that, however, doesn't mean a strike is imminent. it first would have to be approved by the negotiating committee and upper echelon of the wga.
the wga already is in a three-week-old strike with many of its members in a separate union for tv and film writers, which has resulted in picket lines in new york and on the west coast. the cbs news union's negotiating committee is scheduling a meeting after thanksgiving to assess the situation, wgae president michael winship said..[..]
if this were a conservative blog, we'd make some crack about how the cbs news execs were going to have to make the news up themselves now.
I don't know about you, but I'm seriously jonesing for The Daily Show and Colbert Report...anything that's gonna squeeze the networks into getting to the table and negotiating is good with me.
The possibility of a news writer strike is the best thing I've heard all week. God forbid the anchors write their own material. My Thanksgiving wish is for everyone to go on strike!
desperate housewives!
One benefit of the writer's strike is that with the CBS news writers going out, the CBS evening news with Katie Couric will have a chance for a big jump in their ratings, since they plan to show only reruns of her colonoscopy, day after day.
That'll be an improvement, I always thought she'd do better if the camermen shot her other end.
What if
The writer's strike lasted for a long, long time and
The writer's all had to get other jobs to make ends meet and
They found out they liked shoveling sh*t and tossing garbage around for other employers better than for the MSM and
Never went back to their MSM jobs and
The suits in the MSM would decide that they could do the writer's jobs and
After they learned to read they would try writing but
That wouldn't work and the MSM would go out of business.
This writer's strike might be a helluva boon to mankind, second only to
IMPEACHMENT
Think a lot of the Democratic blog writers could volunteer. Maybe we MIGHT get the news, REAL NEWS, that is.
Am I the only one who feels ambivalent about this writers' strike?
I don't watch TV, don't really care about "popular culture". If all the writers were transported to another planet, my life wouldn't change at all.
I support unions and strikers--any strikers--but really. How about the strikes going on in both France & Germany? They are the real working class heroes, not privileged "artists".
What great timing for the Real News.
Send them some money so they can grow faster and help push MSM right out of the picture, instead of just bitching about MSM. After all, Real News is for us, paid for by us, no advertisers to slant the news, no commercials to waste our time, no stupid owners to dumb down or censor or pervert the news, what the hell more could you want?
Give them a shot, give them some bucks, give them a chance.
I'm really looking forward to the daily show and colbert as well, i need my fix!!
I do support this strike 100% though. I hope the networks can meet these realistic demands
this strike is getting very old...but it's a good thing.Especialy if the news writers go out too.That's what I would call progress.
Don't they do that already?
f the ivory towerist studio heads. Kudos to skippy
Hey Nicole...did you get the letter fron Courage Campaign...about the dirty tricksters.Posing as petitioners for"children with cancer?But they really were from Calif Counts.Duping people to sign a petition that splits Calif electoral votes.sorry about being off topic...but I thought you'd like to know this.These people know no bottom.
Anything that brings the whole Bread and Circus to a grinding halt is a good thing. I'm hoping for some major athlete strikes soon as well. We Americans are the best entertained, least informed citizens in the western world.
Here's a question too: while the SEIU [of which I was a member] and the nurses union are physically supporting the strike, has anyone ever heard of any writers or actors supporting, e.g. nurses in CA?
I am glad I have a lot of DVD's to watch.
Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 4323
If only the writers were striking to demand that they be allowed to tell the truth to the American people about the Bush regime.
Ted @ 15:
this is not solely US.....this is the "coalition of the willing"...please correct me if I'm wrong.
This is off topic, but I think it's appropriate for a posting which writers may be apt to read since they can pass the word.
Here's a way to save a LOT of money and help keep our planet green in a BIG way.
Buy yourself, and everyone in your family at least two watchman's (stocking) caps that can be pulled down over the ears (or not). Get some cute ones, some fun ones, and have everyone wear them indoors, in your homes. (Two, so you'll always have a clean one)
You'll find that you can keep your thermostat between five and ten degrees cooler this winter, while maintaining the same level of personal comfort. You lose an enormous amount of body heat through your head, and when you stop that, you're a lot warmer.
And lowering your thermostat five to ten degrees will save you a ton of money, especially this winter, the way fuel cost are headed.
Use your head.
second you on the 'jonesing for TDS and CR. i'm sure those two - and their writing teams of course!! - have saved countless people a visit to their shrink-of-choice in these outta wack times of ours. they surse now how to keep it real!!
And what we do, is keep about a half-dozen extra caps for guests to use, so they'll be comfy in our climate in our home And when they find out how well it works, we let them take theirs home to help spread the word and reduce the drain on all of our energy supplies.
wes @ 8:
Does this count?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w
Can't Reagan hire scabs???
I bet you John McCain and a few other miscreants are missing their daily plugs on The Enabling Show... sorry, The Daily Show right along with you. TDS is not even close to Colbert-Lite and the tiny balls Stewart has tucked away between his legs didn't even know they existed until he observed Colbert at the WHCD. Thank God Colbert got out of there and started his own show.
Have I mentioned how overrated I think Jon Stewart is? Some great writers on that show but Stewart ain't one of them.
JONESING for the daily show....omg...i'm waaaaaaay past that....i am getting the shakes. haha.
but how are americans going to get their news? how are we supposed to know about britney spears latest drunken redneck idiocy. i just couldn't live without knowing lindsay lohan's latest drunken cocaine exploits
i honestly could care less about the striking writers. "why?", you may ask. well, they don't seem to give a rats' ass about the supporting staff around them on the shows that are getting fired and laid off due to their strike so why should i fret over them?
i'll just turn the damn tee vee off and read a book until the strike's over..
i really don't need them. the writers or the networks.
Its a shame the writer's are on strike now, could you imagine the humor they could write about Scab Labor?
mudshark @ 17:
It's a coalition of the willingly bribed, your tax dollars at work, a new airport for Samoa, in exchange for a wrestler to serve as a masseur in the Green Zone Officer's club.
rasta @ 24:
Celebrity Cok-scapades, now there's a show that needs no writers!!
I didn't know the networks still needed people to write the news. I thought they just used whatever Bush gave them and cut to commercials in-between...
I dont have cable and dont regularly watch anything on TV.
Nicole, you are confusing entertainment with life.
I support unions, but dont support the writers strike as a first order issue. The face is that the average income in the the US is pathetic. The gap between the rich and working class is historic grounds for violence. And the idea that something should be done is a good one. The enrichment of another small group isnt it however.
If there is that much money to go around, then too much is being paid. I havent heard the argument that the writers were underpaid, only that they want a piece of future riches.
How about this - lets take that 'extra' money from all of them - producers, performers, writers etc. This money wasnt 'found'. It is being taken - and the writers want some.
Gee, no more Daily whatsit? I dont have cable, who is this guy Stewart you keep tallking about?
Do yourself a favor Nicole, get rid of your TV.
if this were a conservative blog, we’d make some crack about how the cbs news execs were going to have to make the news up themselves now.
But as we're not, we'll just acknowledge it will continue to come straight from the White House. ;)
hadenuf @ 6:
I think they work hard and are asking for a fair deal. I think all workers should support them, just on principal. I'd like to see unions come back like they were when I was young. They protect the working class, and protect "average "Americans. Wheter you watch TV or not, they are taking a stand against corporations screwing workers: something BUSH fully supports, and so does Congress (it seems).
hadenuf @ 14:
i can't think of anytime a hollywood production called for actors or writers to cross a nurses picket line, so i don't know what that would entail. i do know that our union (screen actors guild) in the past has refused to cross teamsters picket lines.
i personally have helped support the labor actions of the ca. nurses, and my union has encouraged its members to help the seiu with their picket lines.
One good thing about the writer's strike is it'll cut down on the number of cute lines in the feminine hygiene commercials.
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