Working Life

Fantasy is the Magic Kingdom’s product. Yet, life is all too real for the thousands of people who work at Disneyland and Disneyworld, the people who make billions for the huge wealthy corporation but are faced with bad pay, homelessness, debt and hunger. So, a few days ago, I went to the mass rally for […]

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    No surprise: the members of the WGA voted to pull down their picket signs and go back to work pending a vote on the actual deal. This from today’s Los Angeles Times: More than 90% of the 3,775 writers who cast ballots in Los Angeles and New York voted to immediately end the work […]

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    No surprise: the members of the WGA voted to pull down their picket signs and go back to work pending a vote on the actual deal. This from today’s Los Angeles Times: More than 90% of the 3,775 writers who cast ballots in Los Angeles and New York voted to immediately end the work […]

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    As most of you know by now, the Writers Guild of America officially announced that it has reached a deal with Big Media to bring an end to its strike. That happened over the weekend (and yours truly has tried to stick to a no-weekend blogging rule for sanity sake) so I thought I’d […]

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    As most of you know by now, the Writers Guild of America officially announced that it has reached a deal with Big Media to bring an end to its strike. That happened over the weekend (and yours truly has tried to stick to a no-weekend blogging rule for sanity sake) so I thought I’d […]

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    Use caution…no I’m not referring to those of you who are celebrating the Giants AMAZING win (hey, I’m a New Yorker) nor am I suggesting you be wary of the polls about Super Tuesday (this is worth reading). But, we should be cautious about believing that the strike by the Writers Guild of America […]

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    Use caution…no I’m not referring to those of you who are celebrating the Giants AMAZING win (hey, I’m a New Yorker) nor am I suggesting you be wary of the polls about Super Tuesday (this is worth reading). But, we should be cautious about believing that the strike by the Writers Guild of America […]

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    Sure, there are a lot of reporters who could qualify for the title "worst reporter ever"? Judith Miller, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Friedman, David Broder…there is a large class of people who claim to practice journalism but seem to be caught in the grips of gullibility, conventional wisdom, their own ideology or simply the desire […]

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    Sure, there are a lot of reporters who could qualify for the title "worst reporter ever"? Judith Miller, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Friedman, David Broder…there is a large class of people who claim to practice journalism but seem to be caught in the grips of gullibility, conventional wisdom, their own ideology or simply the desire […]

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    The Dow is still down–"only" 90 points as of now, which, in this crazy world, is considered good–but I still am skeptical that The Fed rate cut yesterday will do much to avoid a worsening economy. Note: I use the word "worsening" because for most people the economy has been pretty bad for them […]

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