Of course, I just saw them talk about this on the CBS News. No surprise that in covering it, they talked primarily to a AMPTP (the massive collection of producers/corporate powers), who is stonewalling the WGA. They had a brief clip of a TV star picketing, but it mostly went to the stuffed shirt, bemoaning the unfair manipulation of the WGA. How it is so unfair to try and include Reality Show and Animation writers. Yeah, it would be unfair, as the Reality Show writers would then have the backing of others, and the networks couldn't just go and dump and glut of reality show on the air during a strike. Better yet, the guy claimed that if that was off the table, they would just love to talk Internet and DVD rights...Yeah, right. Cause they have always been such straight shooters. And then they quoted and unnamed source that said the move to change negotiating strategy was a scheme on the unions part. Gee, I wonder who that source was, hmm?
Just a nice reminder about big media, and who is paying for the news.
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Christopher Trumbo on the History of the WGA's Fight for Writers
Paul Haggis: The Reality of Reality and Animation
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