Word: picketer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
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...
...worthy of consideration, but neither seems to accord with the special significance of the hunger strike as a form of extra-democratic activism. Increased discussion with Columbia administrators, collective student pressure upon the Committee on the Core Curriculum (upon which three current undergraduates sit), even sit-ins and picket lines would seem to be more appropriate forms of encouraging progress. Especially in the forum of a higher educational institution, discourse and weight of argument should be relied on to advocate and cajole. Desperation tactics such as the hunger strike should only be resorted to in the direst of circumstances...
...groups, collectively referred to as the WGA, began the strike on Nov. 5 after refusing an offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP). And in the ensuing division between studio executives and screenwriters, one surprising group has taken their places on both sides of the picket line: Harvard alumni.A HOUSE DIVIDED“There are no negotiations going on right now,” Patric Verrone ’81, president of the WGA and a former Winthrop House resident, said last week. “We gave them a package of proposals. They walked...