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« NPR Music pumps up | Main | Boston.com redesigns; UFO hotspots; 9 creative staircases » November 6, 2007Writer's strike: Blogs, celebrity picketers, Leno brings donuts and what's with the Jon Stewart rumor?With the Writer's Guild strike of film and TV writers under way -- the sticking point was compensation of writers for new-media content.-- here's the Western report: companies they're striking, where they're picketing Blogging it (thanks to Cory Bergman's Lost Remote for the links research): The L.A. Times ShowTracker is now a strike blog. "Dancing With the Stars" stars ad libbed yesterday, it reports. Scribe Vibe is Variety's strike blog; there's also an index of their coverage of the issues and events leading up to the strike. Hollywood Reporter, of course. Mark Evanier's News From Me Craig Mazin’s and Ted Elliott's The Artful Writer Group blog United Hollywood, with instructions for picketers. ("Wear a red shirt. Find other writers in RED SHIRTS. Sign in. Pick up your picket sign. Begin.") Huffington Post, which doesn't pay its bloggers at all, maintains a sympathetic Strike Blog. Leading now: Jay Leno rolled up to a picket line on his motorcycle with doughnuts for striking writers at NBC... Leno and the other late-night talk shows are all in repeats for the duration. (WaPo: Late-Night Talk Shows in the Dark After Writers' Strike) Nikki Finke at LA Weekly counts the picketers. (3,029). Rick Ellis at AllYourTV.com maintains a list of how this will affect your favorite shows.
A report yesterday at Portfolio's Mixed Media blog, later denied, said that Jon Stewart would pay his picketing Daily Show writers, then his whole staff, for two weeks from his own pocket, then from his production company's budget. Still denied. Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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