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...union with politics transforms the latter into something akin to a pampered whore: passionate at will, too certain of its own ends, unwilling to compromise and ultimately, too unreasonable...
Green, who was president of the Harvard Political Union, said he thought of creating Essembly after he worked for Sen. John F. Kerry, (D-Mass.)’s presidential campaign in New Hampshire in the summer of 2003. That fall, he roomed with Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly Class of 2006, who launched Facebook.com in February...
...West Los Angeles. Early this week the entire writer-producer staff of Top Model walked off the job, alleging that the show's executive producers are hindering their efforts to join the Writers Guild of America and collect the pension and pay benefits that all television writers receive as union members. The signs they carry brandish their sentiments: "Top Model means Top $," "Reality Needs a Re-write" and "Tyra is Union...
...that viewers will tune into as the show begins its fourth season. Three episodes are finished, but the strike could delay or disrupt the rest of the season. Anisa Productions, which produces the series, released a statement saying that writers should work through the National Labor Relations Board to unionize; union members call that a stall tactic, since it would mean allowing the series to complete its season - after which the writers, they fear, could...
...year since reality writers in Hollywood have been fighting to become unionized, they've consistently come up against resistance from management. For one thing, it would increase production costs in a genre that is considerably cheaper to produce than scripted shows. But there's also the recognition that granting writers union status would be admitting that "reality" shows are more scripted than they appear to be. While the responses of contestants are allegedly spontaneous, the scenarios, plots and storylines on these shows are, in fact, crafted by writers - who often go by titles like "show producer" - functioning in much...