Writer's Strike
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- mtgentry
Anyone out of work because of it? The company I was freelancing for ran out of work last week and I think the strike will only make things worse for them.
- capsize0
Writers Guild of America= Aircraft Controllers Union
those eggheads are going to be destroyed as a union. Wait! Maybe the talent will come to their support!
HAhahahahahahahahaha oh yeah the last hollywood millionaire unionist was Reagan. good luck and good night.
- fortified0
if anything I see it as a good opportunity for online work, as I just attempted to explain in another thread, once the networks dry up with new programming the advertisers will start pulling money away from broadcast and putting more of it online.
So even broadcast and motion designers will still have work with online agencies.
- Jaline0
What will I do with all my free time?
- TheBlueOne0
I understand the dramas and sitcoms shutting down but Letterman and Leno? I was shocked..these guys can't even come up with 15 minutes of jokes on their own daily? Pussies.
I just read how Rachel Ray will continue production because she writes her own show. Rachel fucking Ray? But professional comedians like Leno and Letterman can't hang with Rachel fucking Ray?
Lame.
- TheBlueOne0
...and whoever was writing Leno's material should stay out on strike because they suck. And all this time I just thought it was Leno. He actually PAYS people to make him sound like a retard. Show business is amazing...
- mtgentry0
Yes capsize, how dare they demand their fair share of dvd revenues.
- capsize0
Is that kosher? I mean if teamsters went on strike and you shipped using the trains or muleteam wouldn't that be crossing the picket line in some way? Sure, someone's else pain is your opportunity and this fine empire requires the sentiment but isn't this more than a management issue?
J'accuse! I'm not watching Dan rather anymore! I've had it.
- harlequino0
Writers for "The Office" discussing the strike.
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/…For gods sake, the networks already have it figured out the % that should be going to writers and other talent in residuals for web and DVD. Quit stalling and fucking pay, assholes.
- flashbender0
considering the pure awesomeness that came out of the last strike (Reality TV), I can;t wait to see what wonderful fruit of entertainment this strike bears. I'm hoping it somehow involves boobies.
- mg330
Leno is for the formaldehyde crowd laying around in their deteriorating bodies.
I figured Letterman would just keep on going. His monologue is so short anyways.
I figured he'd keep going since Leno WAS NOT. I'd rather watch a current program than a re-run.
From the sound of things Jimmy Kimmell is still going to be live.
- jevad0
This is pretty much the best thing to happen to America for a very long time...long may it continue
- harlequino0
Watch networks turn to brands and agencies to provide content.
Hah, like that could ever happen.
Hahahahah
Haha, heh, heh, huhhh...Oh shit.
- Jaline0
"Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" has committed to pay the salaries of his own writers and those of "The Colbert Report" for the next two weeks, so his writers won't be harmed financially by the strike during that period. Stewart and Colbert are planning shows that are heavy on interviews, that won't rely on writers."
Also, jevad, I may be hypocritical by agreeing with you, but I think you have a point.
- madirish0
*any* organized, unionized strike of labor in this country is the BEST thing that can ever happen. period.
- Jaline0
What the strike could mean for "Lost":
http://www.eztv.it/index.php?mai…
- subversve0
*any* organized, unionized strike of labor in this country is the BEST thing that can ever happen. period.
madirish
(Nov 7 07, 11:53)wow. i think that's the first statement from you that i completely disagree with :)
- madirish0
haha. right on. :)
- TheBlueOne0
*any* organized, unionized strike of labor in this country is the BEST thing that can ever happen. period.
madirish
(Nov 7 07, 11:53)+1
Everyone forgets that all the things we enjoy today in the workplace weren't given to us by some "free market capitalist with a heart of gold", they were fought hard for by generations of working men who often sacrificed alot to get them from people who used every means at their disposal up to and including violence to keep them from getting them.
- harlequino0
^ My friend Conroy says the same thing, TBO.
He's a thrid generation jizz mopper.
Good man too.
- PonyBoy0
... yeah... but where's Hoffa buried?