Staffers Vote To Strike At CBS News

AP:

CBS News writers authorized their union leaders to call a national strike, the Writers Guild of America said Monday, escalating a labor impasse.

About 500 CBS News television and radio writers -- who work in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago -- have been working under an expired contract since April 2005.

Read the whole story: AP

Comments

[WigWamWag]

Garbage before the strike
Garbage during the strike
an probably more garbage after the strike.

The only difference will be that there will may more ads to pay for the rate increases. Corporate greed and Labor Party coercion makes for more of the same old garbage.

Keep your DVR's fast forward button handy.

[zencat]

CBS has a news program?

[ajax2]

No news won't affect Katie.

[cabgx2]

News writers, won't write for news readers. What is this world coming to?

[clumberfeet]

I long suspected the news was written not just reported.

[NuAgeDok]

The plagiarism detection software will working overtime to see if Couric cops her storylines from Parade Magazine or USA today or Green Eggs and Ham . . .

[Kungfublood]

What is that worth that loss of self respect and vanished integrity i once posted that i would stop thinking for five hundred million dollars I can't imagine what I would charge to stand up and help any government to imprison kill and torture millions of people by spewing forth my deliberate lies on television.

[scooperss]

CBS news writers on strike? What news writers? Watched CBS last night and the top story was who was leading in the presidential polls. To me, that's not news it's speculation with a bunch of horse shit thrown in for good measure.

[jesusquintana]

Say what? The CBS arm of the propaganda mill might grind to a halt?

...too bad.

[USMC1980]

The new CBS strike is just one more nail in the coffin of CBS's fat, overpaid, underpreforming, CEO "Leslie" Moonves.

Moonves fired the great Dan Rather out of sheer cowardice. Then he sued Howard Stern, and was (along with Joe Hollinder) puplicly humiliated by Stern. Then Moonves screwed the pooch again by firing Imus, and then had to setlle with Imus in court, and pay him 50 Million. Now this latest blow. Sumner Redstone and Leslie Moonves, have made one bonehead move after another, how these two losers still have their jobs is beyond me.

[lespool]

Here's hoping that FOX cable pundits, writers, staff --- hell every single employee will be the next to strike.

[Vr6]

Maybe the Blogsphere will be running the election next year - as perhaps thru' escalation, TV would be shut down! Then journalists come out on strike and that leaves....­. one can only hope!

[whizkid]

If you hear "Bush is God" broadcast, be sure the corporate elite feel they have us by the balls.
BTW. Bush is a deserter.
Its a fact.
But the MSM kept it from the TelePrompter.

[groucho]

I cancelled my cable service today in support of the strike. The company tried in 20 ways to keep me, including having a hold until the strike was over. Must be more than a handful cancelling.
Unions are all we have left, if New Orleans and Minnesota didn't tell you that loud and clear, you're not listening.

[Wiredwilly]

Good. Perhaps we will start getting some hard nose Journalism instead of " write what we want or you get the boot." Come to think of it, I'm not posting anymore until the Strike is settled.