For those missing their fix of The Daily Show, writers from The Daily Show give you…Not The Daily Show.
The AMPTP has agreed to go back to the bargaining table with the WGA, but under a “force majeure” clause Sony and Universal are locking out actors in what appears to be an attempt to drive a wedge between SAG and the writers. Which is a bit of an odd decision, given that the SAG contract is up in June of 2008 and they will no doubt be looking toward the WGA to support them. The net effect may wind up being an acceleration of the actors into the dispute.
Since the DGA contract expires at the same time as the SAG contract, it should be interesting to see how the directors come down in all of this — they have a very different relationship with the AMPTP than the writers do, a lot more leverage and the ability to shut production down in a heartbeat.
Meanwhile Garth Brooks does the right thing:
Garth Brooks canceled his appearances on The View and Ellen in support of the writers strike underway in Hollywood.
Brooks was going to appear on the shows to support the release of his greatest hits plus disc, “The Ultimate Hits.”
His publicist said, “This is the first time in many years that he has not done television in support of his music. His first appearance on television was to have been The Tonight Show, however the strike happened that day. We believe he is the first artist with product in the marketplace to not have the support of these appearances. Garth is proud of the position he has taken since he hopes to be a writer in the not too distant future.”
And Haskell Wexler (In The Heat of the Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) has a few words for those crossing the picket lines, entitled “Together We Bargain, Divided We Beg.”
There will be a big march down Hollywood Boulevard tomorrow, with the writers joined by actors, musicians, Teamsters, SEIU and other union employees. They’ll be assembling at Hollywood and Ivar at 1:00 pm with the march beginning at 1:30.
Sounds like fun.
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Ack!
hey!
Alternative means of entertainment. I’m thinking about boycotting the whole shooting match. I’ve taken up crochet.
Erm, what I meant to say was: Hail, Muse Jane!
Those Below have been notified.
“You can’t put our stuff out there for free!”
Priceless
the writers should assign a RFID ‘tag’ to every word they sell.
See where it goes and who makes money off their efforts. See who owes them money.
just like actual tangible ‘product.’
Lindy @ 3
Books always make a wonderful alternative to the TV.
Is the IA local going to get its thumb out too, or are they still studio captives?
This video is sheer genius … keep hitting them with facts …
Great video. Especially the first half.
I have read fifteen in the last month and a half already.
I only get 3 channels on the boob tube and I don’t watch it much anyway.
I ain’t payin’ sixty bucks a month for cable.
LMAO
I didn’t realize it quoted from the last thread till just now.
Can you say red faced?
I can.
I know that I’d certainly be miffed if the publisher of my books decided not to count sales of the material done in another medium against the advance that still remains to be worked off.
More power to ‘em.
Bustednuckles @ 12
Yeah, well, I recognized you were quoting me and understood that you had meant to quote my comment on reading books. FWIW.
behindthefall @ 13
congratulations on books that sell~
EPU’d
Also, you can support the Pencils to Media Moguls campaign here
Force majeure reared its ugly head in aviation post 9/11
http://www.dollarsandsense.org…..2ward.html
and is one more way for management to beat down employees.
When airlines were allowed to operate after 9/11, management elected to cut flying. They used 9/11 as a fig leaf to invokve FM, and they furloughed employees or cut their hours out of seniority order. In my workplace, senior workers were sent home while junior (and lower paid) workers were retained.
Unions capitulated when they did not prosecute grievances by contractual deadlines. They agreed to a company timeline, and the grievances disappeared in Chapter 11.
You cannot compromise with corporatists – they are gunning for the whole enchilada.
Go WGA – get mean and hang tough! You will have to hit management in the money HARD to prevail.
Welcome to The Ownership Society, and our newest feature, force majeure: have you been assigned An Owner yet?
Could the tophatted fellow at the end of the clip actually be one of the Pythons? Good impression, if not!
“Winter Of Our Dissed Content”
hey, some clever writer came up with that good one.
Randi’s show is currently being rebroadcast on KPOJ in Portland Or. 6-9 Pacific time.
Folks should give a listen.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 15
Just ve-e-e-e-ry, ve-e-e-e-e-ry slowly …
punaise @ 21
… and that clever writer will go unpaid for it!
punaise @ 21
tres clever
Along with reading all the news of the day about corps and their chokehold on America, I watched ‘Sicko’ last night. Mostly because of my immigrant father, I’ve grown up thinking that the U.S. was the most fair, benign, compassionate, overall best country on earth. I’ve had a rude awakening.
TeddySanFran @ 19
I think the Owners are into us like a timeshare scheme:
I gotta pay $3 a gallon to Exxon, $6,000 a year to BC/BS, etc.
I’ve had the weird thought the brave new world we are slouching towards will be more cost-effective than slavery. The slaveholders had to room, board and clothe their property, and keep them healthy enough to work.
The Owners will do no such thing.
diogenes @ 27
We bought you this toy from China because we love you.
Bustednuckles @ 16
As Katie Couric really doesn’t do news, will this affect her nightly broadcasts?
Thanks Jane for keeping us updated on this important strike.
Unions, yes! Essential component for a functional democracy.
Jane, that was a fab book salon yesterday w/ N Klein. Thank you.
TeddySanFran @ 19
I only let a few sources in this life be the Boss of Me.
TSF: smile, please.
I guess the CBS news writers are members of WGA, but some other branch? And it sounds like they bargain and strike each corporate News Division separately, unlike the “fiction writers?”
Hugh @ 29
I’m sure Katie can hire some folks from Redstate to step into the breech.
-GSD
P.S. Douchebag of Liberty says the story he printed was a source from a source……You know, unverifiable bullshit.
mom my owner just gave me a memo.
they need ‘wives’ in xaung province by next winter.
i can get a job at the local starbucks.
i have an hour to pack.
bye.
Hugh @ 29
I think we could probably get a good drinking game going if she had to write her own news casts. Something along the line of how many right wing talking points spew out of her mouth.
this is katie couric with tonights news.
are you having trouble putting food on your family?
GSD @ 34
The more I think about it, the more I think Obama fu-ked up. He should have called out Novakula and Turdblossom on their smears.
Joe Klein’s conscience @ 36
Except you’d prol’ly be in alcohol poisoning by the end of each night’s show.
“Getting Paid is the name of the game”…unless of course you’re a writer.
Loved the video!
Hugh @ 29
Doubt it. Probably already being handled by a think tank..
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 35
Funny!
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 35
Mabel,
Did you hear the same story I did on NPR this morning?
How to get smuggled?
demi:
Did you hear the same story I did on NPR this morning?
How to get smuggled?
Demi no I didn’t. what did they say?
how to get smuggled?
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 45
It was a story about people from China getting smuggled to the US, so to make money to send home. Fake marriages was one of the ways…
You might be able to find the story on their website. I gotta go pick up my kid, or I’d find the link for ya.
Swear. GF.
Bye.
yes that makes sense.
i know a guy quite wealthy on paper /land, etc… but he’s blown a huge inheritance and is totally immature for a grown man.
went to the ukraine twice to find ‘brides.’
on both occassions found 25 year olds ‘interested’ in him but must have realized he wasn’t worth as much as he appeared to be and they dumped him.
I think it was about 10 years ago, Garth Brooks celebrated the release of a new CD by visiting and thanking the workers at the plant where the CD was produced.
I like the guy.
Maybe his mentor had more of an influence than once thought. Then he comes back with Jeff Gerth.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 47
Aren’t there mail order services for this sort of thing? Alternatively, Freddy Thompson seems to have this whole robbin’ the cradle thing down as well.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 47
Lol, coulda went to Des Moine for that!
Looks like Blogger is buggered again.
under a “force majeure” clause
OK, fine. blame it on the French… :~)
Mallard Fillmore addresses the writer’s strike today. For some incomprehensible reason, the unfunny cartoon duck is somehow offended that the Colbert Report uses professional writers.
At least I think that’s what I think he’s saying, I can’t really make sense of his strip. You know, Tinsley, maybe you should consider getting a professional writer to help you do your strip. It just isn’t cutting it lately. And sober up, whydoncha.
Jane Hamsher @ 52
It’s spotty but back.
Joe Klein’s conscience @ 38
Here’s the clip of Novak on Fox.
Ahh, bride shopping. That’s what Billo was doing in the Dominican Republic.
Duncan’s Deep Thought of the Day is actually pretty, well, deep:
TeddySanFran @ 58
Mind vs Hive
TeddySanFran @ 58
that’s an interesting observation and if true (should be easy to verify) adds to the MSM ‘meme’ of no not liberal not at all why do you ask?
The great news about Duncan is that his son(Duncan)is coming home from Afghanistan and running for the seat Duncan is vacating for his presidential bid. It’s so cool that those folks can vote for Duncan Hunter again!
Server error, Teddy.
Loo Hoo. @ 61
more dynasty politics
Loo Hoo. @ 61
Duncan “D’oh!” Nuts.
Elliott @ 63
*spit*
Loo Hoo. @ 62
lol
Wish somebody’d run against Duncan Hunter the Younger.
This dynasty stuff sucks. This is AMERICA, people!
PTSD for Congress – Vote for little Duncan, the people hunter.
Jane Hamsher @ 52
Who would that be?
punaise @ 64
I was thinking Dunc and Hunt, but then I could only picture Cheney’s mug.
Breaking: Doolittle Stepping Down — or Withdrawing?
snip
OT
Why is there two justice systems…?
Tyson sentenced to one day in jail
Associated Press
Monday November 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was sentenced today to 24 hours in jail and three years’ probation for drug possession and driving under the influence in the south-western US state of Arizona.
Tyson had pleaded guilty in September to cocaine possession and driving under the influence.
He faced a maximum of four years and three months in prison.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/ne…..14,00.html
FYI, the writers from both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have been busy making a number of videos since the strike began. Writers from The Colbert Report created “Videologblog: Writers Strike” last week. The Daily Show’s Rob Kutner created “Fade to Black” in the first days of the strike, and fellow Daily Show scribe Tim Carvell gathered numerous friends together to respond to the AMPTP’s assertion (in ads taken out last week) that writers are paid residuals on ‘new media.’ The result was “How I Spent My Digital Download Residuals.”
TeddySanFran @ 67
America is a Nepocracy
“You don’t have to be a Gibbons’ scholar to see the similarities between imperial Rome and the current American Nepocracy to surmise where it’s all leading.”
punaise @ 64
But you crisply creamed that one.
Here are the people running now that DH is mercifully leaving the House:
District 52:
[ Duncan L. Hunter (R)* - Not Seeking Re-Election, Candidate for President in 2008. ]
Joel Anderson (R) — State Assemblyman & Businessman
Steve Baldwin (R) – State Assemblyman
Jan Goldsmith (R) – San Diego Superior Court Judge, Ex-State Assemblyman & ‘98 State Treasurer Candidate
Duncan D. Hunter (R) – Businessman, Iraq War Veteran & Son of Congressman Hunter
Brian W. Jones (R) – Santee City Councilman, Realtor & Minister
Ken King (R) – Swimming Pool Contractor & Community Activist
Mark Larson (R) – Radio Talk Show Host
Mark Price (R) – Alpine Union School Board Member
Bob Watkins (R) – San Diego County Board of Education President, Businessman & GOP Activist
Jim Hester (D) – Attorney, Army Veteran & Community Activist
Mike Lumpkin (D) – Retired Naval Officer
Hugh @ 75
707. Bet you thought we would just glaze over that one, punaise.
New Jane upstairs.
FYI, New post
New Thread…
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..rofiteers/
OT and probably reported before but it’s news to me. Via TNH, Rachel Paulose the Minnesota USA and resident Bushie and kook has resigned and will go back to the DOJ to do something or other for which she will be paid by American taxpayers until Bush leaves office.
http://wcco.com/local/rachel.p…..71482.html
Anyone catch this little tidbit of news?
Paulose stepping down as USA, moving to Justice
Just fire the incompetent partisan hack and be done with it!
Ms I @ 73
Thank you, I hadn’t seen two thirds of those! :)
rat bastahd,
Great minds . . .
rat bastahd @ 82
I think this is as close to firing as can happen in this admin…
Eureka Springs @ 77
how old-fashioned of me. please support my candidate, Cruller de Ville.
well it’s not often that i scoop firedoglake (and crooks&liars and daily kos) but i had this video up last wednesday.
and, some of the writers have begun a program to send as many pencils as possible to the hollywood execs in a symbolic gesture. the idea was born on fan sites, and is hubbed over at united hollywood. you can help by buying a box of pencisl for a dollar via paypal. details at skippy.
Good for SAG!!!
As a “SAG eligible”, I have checked out some of the details.
When SAG members start being trashed, no doubt there will be the same misdirection concerning mean vs. median income. Same deal as for members of WGA. Most SAG actors don’t earn enough to even qualify for SAG health benefits (not free, paid).
CTuttle @ 72
How is cocaine possession only ‘worth’ 4 years and 3 months in prison?
I thought mere possession got you like 20 years these days.
Oh, I’ll bet it was that ‘White Man’s Cocaine’ and not the ‘brown stuff’.
Makes all the difference.
How did Tyson manage to not bite off the ear of a cop? Inquiring minds want to know.
The WGA members are thrilled that you are publicly supporting their cause on the streets and the blog.