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...busy trying and failing to get either laid, hired, or both to notice or care about the rest of the world. We do seem to care about the occasional issue, as this week’s Undergraduate Council (UC) campaigns suggest, but rarely are we moved to picket, petition, or, god forbid, strike...
...streets of Los Angeles, the picket lines trail into coffee shops. In the high-rises of Manhattan, the lawyers file into boardrooms. And this is no minor squabble: The strike affects over half a million entertainment jobs in Southern California alone. If the writers last as long as they did in 1988—the full 22 weeks of a TV drama season—it could cost the U.S. economy $1 billion...
...loud and clear. Don’t ever let Big Media rob you of those hard-earned DVD royalties. Stand up for the inalienable right to “higher minimums for the Internet and other nontraditional media, including Article 14 hyphenates.” Keep clutching those picket signs in your well-manicured hands, and never lose faith in the TV addiction of your fellow countrymen...
Other striking writers have gotten out the scribes' side of the story in blogs and Youtube videos. Daily Show writer Jason Ross delivers an update from the New York City picket lines in the Comedy Central show's signature faux news style, conceding the producers' point that it's hard to measure the value of online content: "Online, intrinsic worth is measured in things like number of tears shed over Britney Spears by a heartbreakingly gay teenager," Ross says, before he is interrupted with a note that Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, is suing Youtube for $1 billion for using...
David Letterman's writers are delivering strike-related jokes and photos to the late night humor-starved on lateshowwritersonstrike.com. "The collateral damage from the strike keeps building," says one would-be monologue entry from writer Bill Scheft. "Yesterday on the picket line, the writers chanted 'Hey, hey, ho, ho...' and Don Imus got fired again...