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From the WGA East:
4:30 p.m. EST, Friday, November 2nd: The WGAE Council and WGAW Board unanimously voted to call a strike. The Writers Guilds will go on strike Monday, November 5th at 12:01 AM. At that time, all Guild-covered work under the MBA must cease. We will be sending more detailed information over the weekend.
Good luck, everyone.
(h/t D.J.)
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Le sigh.
Someone on TWOP made an interesting point:
Would watching clips of the show online (like at comedycentral.com or TDS archive) also be like crossing a picket line? As far as I can tell, the only people to profit would be the studios. I felt like that was what Jon was saying last night as well. I kind of want to go drown my sorrows by watching old clips, but it feels an awful lot like I’d be undermining the writers.
See, now I just don’t know *what* to do. … I guess I’m off to blow something up in my video games through the tears.
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Oh, but I need to watch old clips online to feel the void! I feel bad now…how about I download them illegally, then no one gets the profits…:)
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I’m considering waiting to get the DVD until after the strike. Anyone else have any thoughts on that? It seems like there ought to be something we can do to show support for the writers.
(full disclosure: most of the clips on the trailer from the other night I’ve got on iTunes, but I’m pretty much committed to getting the dvd anyway…)
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@bowlofpetunias: ‘I felt like that was what Jon was saying last night as well.’ Could someone clarify? Was that a remark Jon made to the studio audience last night?
I confess it had not occurred to me that watching clips would be obstructing the writers’ goals. Now I’m inclined to think it would. Anybody up for a prolonged game of Master of Ones CC Domain?
Or maybe we could amuse ourselves through this period by playing ‘Pitch.’ I’ll start: ‘Hollywood moguls meet this weekend–in space!’
Or to express our solidarity and show our appreciation of the writers’ talents we could expose our own lack of talent by pitching the worst TV shows ever to each other.
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I think there should be a tv show about my son and I eating dinner.
Because…we’re like, really sloppy eaters. Plus we fight all the time. But deep down inside you can tell we really love each other.
Oh, and we’re really really rich.
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@ nousblet-
He said this:
“You may have noticed tonight that I was using a lot of words. It’s because there may or may not be a writer’s strike next week and so I was trying to get in as many words as I could before something like that happened. There’s a little bit of a discrepancy: the writers would like to get paid on what’s called ‘new media’ – the internet and such – and the corporations are saying “It’s too *new*! We don’t know what’s – we make money or not! I don’t know! We can’t pay…anything!” And so as you can see both sides have their point. So we won’t be here but while we’re not here you know you can check out all of our content on our new website, thedailyshow.com. Every Daily Show since I got here is on it. Free. Except the advertising. So support our advertisers.”
Imagine it said in Jon’s usual fashion, and you can see how the poster I quoted got that meaning out of it.
…of course, to get his exact quote I just looked it up on the site… o.O
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I can’t tell you what Jon might have meant, but the current dispute is over permanently downloaded media, to have those sales treated like DVD sales, because the functionality is identical.
So a resolution would pay writers for sales on iTunes. But a cut of the advertising revenue on a free, streaming-video site? As far as I know, that’s not being discussed.
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