Comments on: Bad Faith Studio Heads Buy Democratic Consultant Chris Lehane

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:03:01 +0000

Oops! Wrong thread!

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:00:58 +0000

Eureka Springs has a late night thread upstairs!

By: USpace

USpace — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:11:07 +0000

The Democratic Party doesn’t represent working people and union members, they represent Union Executives. They are anti-worker in many ways. Their appetites for taxes deter businesses and studios from hiring more workers, and they are anti-freelance, which many writers are from time to time, or most of the time.

the writer’s strike
and the terrorists
- just blame Bush

http://absurdthoughtsaboutgod.blogspot.com/
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By: Peterr

Peterr — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:37:38 +0000

OK, script idea:

Working title: We’re Waaaiitttingggggggggggg . . .

How about a webcam of WGA negotiators sitting around one side of the table, looking at the empty chairs on the other side?

How about a punch clock, with WGA negotiators’ cards to “working” side of the clock and the AMPTP negotiators’ cards to the “not working” side?

Reserved parking lot spaces for both sides, with cars parked in the spots marked WGA and emptiness on those marked AMPTP?

OK, these are really just ideas for scenes (I’ll be keeping my day job), but a couple of talented script writers could surely come up with interesting ways to demonstrate the absence of their negotiating counterparts from the AMPTP.

Paging the Daily Show/Colbert Report staff . . .

By: perris

perris — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:29:39 +0000

jane upstairs

http://firedoglake.com/2007/12…..p/#Respond

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:26:40 +0000

I was just thinking that the single best thing about the strike is that I now have access to some of the best TV writers via their own youtubely productions. And without having to wade through 17 Rachel Ray Nabiscuit ads.

Just yesterday I bought some music directly from a local band, right from their very own website.

There’s a lesson here about distribution, ownership, who’s power is really diminishing as technology changes distribution and lowers barriers to production, etc.

By: kiddo

kiddo — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:18:11 +0000

Well I’ve got a great Friday night lined up. I’m house kid sitting my three little cousins until around eleven tonight, and then I go to my almost 100 year old auntie’s for the rest of the night. This old girl is a fiery FDR Demo, who still votes. She dropped out of school in the third grade, but she’s a lot smarter than I’ll ever be. She has no problem complaining to me that she thinks I am, as she puts it, too Republican. Have a good and safe evening. ;0)

By: kiddo

kiddo — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:10:58 +0000

I find this man Lehane rather displeasing. I think my party, the Democratic Party, needs to take a long hard look at itself and decide just exactly what it stands for.

By: Pachacutec

Pachacutec — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:56:21 +0000

That video is a riot!

By: cancercures

cancercures — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:53:32 +0000

When the studios forgo the amount of money potentially lost by advertisers (if the strike is long term) or by hiring PR firms to soften their image, it shows to me this is not just about the money.