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From WNYC (New York Public Radio):
What are TV Writers Doing Now?
John Oliver, writer, comedian and Daily Show correspondent, Peter Gwinn, writer for the Colbert Report, and Brian Stack, writer and performer on Late Night with Conan O’Brien come on to riff on the news and flex their comedic muscles while on strike.
Listen below:
(Thanks for the heads up, Nicki!)
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Nice. Three of my favorite writers in New York.
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They make a good point about the rest of the staff (support staff, crew, etc.) that aren’t really mentioned very frequently in the strike coverage, who are in some financial dire straights as well. I think we can only hope they’re surviving this with little to no damage.
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I love it that John Oliver addresses the plight of the rest of the shows’ staff. By saying that the writers and show runners weakness is their love and compassion for the people they work with.
The AMPTP will try to use that suffering against the writers. For instance, they will create fake emails or bulletins supposedly written by “assistants” or other staffers detailing the suffering they are doing so the rich and selfish writers can get more money. There’s one posted on Huffpo today that made me want to scream (because it makes writer’s assistants look like petty, selfish, whiney brats).
Or they’ll be that guy, Ken whatsisname, and call into a radio show to spew propaganda instead of asking a question.
The ploy is so trasparent its insulting, but it works.
Injustice makes us angry. Seeing others suffer makes us angry, and we want to punish someone. If all we have are words, we throw them at the people who we know will actually be hurt. Corporations won’t, of course. So suggesting the writers are responsible for the staff that gets laid off by as a result of this strike works because the enemy here, the companies who are really to blames, are not things we expect to behave with compassion. Or any human feeling.
I’m not sure the “Mad as Hell” mix is going to work anymore. We have to stop thinking of these companies as people. They are not people; they cannot be expected to behave like people. They are machines that run on money, and the only way we can control them is with money.
I wonder if there is some kind of emergency fund I can contribute to that will help people who lose their jobs over this?
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Don’t know if anyone heard, but Jon has been voted number 41 on TVLand and Entertainment Weekly’s Top 100 Television Icons.
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barenjager
If there is and I happen to find out about it, you’ll be the first to know…
And YEY! for Jon. Great tidbit…
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1) Just went to the WGA-E website and it doesn’t look like there is a place to contribute. Should be though.
2) I noticed the teachers showing their support. think the Librarians should get their comfortable-shoe-wearin’ humps out there and show support as well. DVD’s are a HUGE portion of the circ. stats.
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There is a place to donate money to a group called “Food for Thought” that takes monetary donations and orders food for the picketers and has it to delivered to the picketing site that day. Here’s address link from the Fans4Writers website:
http://www.fans4writers.com/participate.shtml
(Scroll down ’til you get to “Food for Thought” and then click on the “Donate” button.)
I should imagine today New Yorkers are probably cold and wet from all the rain. Hot soup anyone?
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