Comments on: Send An Email To The Network Execs, Tell Them To Give Writers A Fair Share http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:34:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ann in AZ http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137230 Ann in AZ Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:35:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137230 <p>Blue Texan has a <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/peggy-noonan-admits-gop-is-controlled-by-fundies-idiots/">new thread</a> upstairs!</p> Blue Texan has a new thread upstairs!

]]> By: boyndog http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137229 boyndog Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:35:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137229 <p>‘…more effort should be put into getting out the facts…’ travy, I agree with you. But the trick of it is, it’s hard to get out the facts when the other side owns this huge mechanism for getting out ‘the facts’ and goes running to the most visible (and, it just so happens wealthy) among us. It’s not the WGA that paints itself as a rich guy’s club (because 90% of us aren’t). I’ll admit — the strike has been educational for a lot of us. We’re still learning how to do it, how to refine our message. I hope I never again have to use what we’re learning — for us. But I could definitely see using it to help other unions in other industries. If we don’t take that away from this then it would be truly tragic.</p> ‘…more effort should be put into getting out the facts…’ travy, I agree with you. But the trick of it is, it’s hard to get out the facts when the other side owns this huge mechanism for getting out ‘the facts’ and goes running to the most visible (and, it just so happens wealthy) among us. It’s not the WGA that paints itself as a rich guy’s club (because 90% of us aren’t). I’ll admit — the strike has been educational for a lot of us. We’re still learning how to do it, how to refine our message. I hope I never again have to use what we’re learning — for us. But I could definitely see using it to help other unions in other industries. If we don’t take that away from this then it would be truly tragic.

]]> By: BobbyG http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137227 BobbyG Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:33:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137227 <p><em>Hell</em>, no (except for those big paychecks). It was subprime to boot. I am now looking for work and I will <em>never</em> go back to that shit, no matter the money.</p> <p>In fact I quit and took a 23% pay cut to do more socially value-adding work (electronic medical records technology consulting for the Medicare QIO here) and got my ass laid off back in March in the wake of a CMS contract recission.</p> Hell, no (except for those big paychecks). It was subprime to boot. I am now looking for work and I will never go back to that shit, no matter the money.

In fact I quit and took a 23% pay cut to do more socially value-adding work (electronic medical records technology consulting for the Medicare QIO here) and got my ass laid off back in March in the wake of a CMS contract recission.

]]> By: demi http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137226 demi Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:32:38 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137226 <p>Biodun<br /> Secret Hideout.<br /> Check it out.</p> Biodun
Secret Hideout.
Check it out.

]]> By: raven1 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137225 raven1 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:28:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137225 <p>was it worth it?</p> was it worth it?

]]> By: BobbyG http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137224 BobbyG Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:26:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137224 <p>I am both a writer and a quantitative analyst. Writing/editing gigs in general pay in the $30k’s. I sat in a cubicle in a bank for 5 years recently writing regression equations etc for around $85k.</p> I am both a writer and a quantitative analyst. Writing/editing gigs in general pay in the $30k’s. I sat in a cubicle in a bank for 5 years recently writing regression equations etc for around $85k.

]]> By: travy http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137223 travy Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:25:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137223 <p>i am a union editor so spare me the blue collar speech. my point, which was in response to the “star-fucker” comment was that not enough people in the biz and outside it are seeing the realities mentioned above. there are indeed a handful of rock stars in my trade as well as yours with houses in the hills, i’m just saying these people shouldn’t be the most visible people in the picket lines because it makes lots of people including the $90 dollar a day extras roll their eyes…</p> <p>sorry, i don’t want to detract from the effort and goal of this thread, but like i said, support is not universal for the reasons i’ve mentioned and perhaps more effort should be put into getting out the facts…</p> i am a union editor so spare me the blue collar speech. my point, which was in response to the “star-fucker” comment was that not enough people in the biz and outside it are seeing the realities mentioned above. there are indeed a handful of rock stars in my trade as well as yours with houses in the hills, i’m just saying these people shouldn’t be the most visible people in the picket lines because it makes lots of people including the $90 dollar a day extras roll their eyes…

sorry, i don’t want to detract from the effort and goal of this thread, but like i said, support is not universal for the reasons i’ve mentioned and perhaps more effort should be put into getting out the facts…

]]> By: Biodun http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137222 Biodun Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:24:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137222 <p>Not all “white-collar” or culture workers make fantastic money. And writers who can make a living just writing the stuff they’re passionate about should count themselves lucky–in any US city, IMHO.</p> Not all “white-collar” or culture workers make fantastic money. And writers who can make a living just writing the stuff they’re passionate about should count themselves lucky–in any US city, IMHO.

]]> By: Biodun http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137221 Biodun Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:21:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137221 <blockquote><p>Oh I can’t wait to hear what Mitt has to say about atheists.</p> </blockquote> <p>He already said something about them in his “famous” speech (which some morons called the best of the campaign) when he said that “freedom is only for people of faith.” I guess you can add agnostics to that.</p>

Oh I can’t wait to hear what Mitt has to say about atheists.

He already said something about them in his “famous” speech (which some morons called the best of the campaign) when he said that “freedom is only for people of faith.” I guess you can add agnostics to that.

]]> By: dosido http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137220 dosido Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:20:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/send-an-email-to-the-network-execs-tell-them-to-give-writers-a-fair-share/#comment-1137220 <p><em>“Maybe get a blister on your little finger,<br /> maybe a blister on your thumb…” </em></p> <p>*g*</p> <p>I’m with the writers. Writing skills are so unappreciated but everyone can tell the difference between a show with great writing and one that is lame. But the writers are usually invisible in the process…</p> “Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
maybe a blister on your thumb…”

*g*

I’m with the writers. Writing skills are so unappreciated but everyone can tell the difference between a show with great writing and one that is lame. But the writers are usually invisible in the process…

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