Working Life

    This was amusing–even reading it from Bali–so I thought I’d post it. I’m going to do a long take on labor and climate change–it just may be after I get back this weekend (it’s hard to get time to do thinking and writing here). So, in the meantime…a Zagat-style take on the studios written […]

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You may have heard rumors that the strike by the Writers Guild of America might be edging towards resolution because the big media companies had made "ground breaking" proposals. Nonsense. Here’s the real story.   The presidents of Writers Guild of America West and East released a message to its members about the real status […]

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You may have heard rumors that the strike by the Writers Guild of America might be edging towards resolution because the big media companies had made "ground breaking" proposals. Nonsense. Here’s the real story.   The presidents of Writers Guild of America West and East released a message to its members about the real status […]

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   I’d guess most people now believe, five weeks into a strike by the Writers Guild of America, that Big Media is greedy and that it should agree to share money with film and television writers when shows are downloaded over the Internet. We take Big Media’s greed for granted. But, here’s an even bigger […]

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    Like most of you’all, I’m preparing to go off and stuff my face with way too much food, pies and alcohol–maybe the one advantage I have is that I don’t have to do all this in the usual dysfunctional family settings…my good friend Laura Flanders is packing her place with a wild pack of […]

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   So, since I’ve been updating folks on the Writers Guild of America strike against Big Media, a number of people have written me or commented: what can we do to help if we are not WGA members and/or don’t live in Los Angeles or New York City? Other than console you for having to […]

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At least in New York City, there will not be any Writers Guild of America official picketing today (some of us will go over to Broadway and support the striking stagehands). But, there is some stuff to report.   Yesterday, Michael Winship, president of the the Writers Guild of America (east) sent out an e-mail […]

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{attachment id=56 size=small} It was sunny and brisk today on the Writers Guild of America picket line in New York City on the third day of the strike. The pickets have been moving around the city since the strike started on Monday–Day One we rallied outside the NBC (General Electric) studios in Rockefeller Center (just […]

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    Members of the Writers Guild of America have walked out, as of midnight. So, it’s to the picket lines, my friends–where I am headed in about one hour. If you are in New York City, here’s what the Guild sent out yesterday: The Writers Guild will go on strike Monday, November 5th at 12:01 […]

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  Any day now, maybe even tomorrow, there could be a strike by thousands of writers who come up with the words that come out of the mouths of the actors and performers who we watch on the big screen, television, DVDs and, increasingly, the Internet, or listen to on the radio. What isn’t always […]

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