Rumor: NBC May Sue Writers Guild Over Canceled Golden Globes

Little Jeffy is the one who decided to cancel the Golden Globes, not the WGA. The WGA was exercising its legitimate rights to set up picket lines and wage a labor action and targeted the Globes to make a (very costly) point with the AMPTP--of which NBC Universal is a member. BTW, it was because of what happened with the Globes that the strike got settled. No one wanted to see a repeat with the Academy Awards.

If Little Jeffy has a beef, it should be with SAG, who refused to cross the WGA's picket lines.

But Little Jeffy is, after all as another poster so accurately stated a "bald dumb egocentric schmuck putz asswipe who cost his company over ONE BILLION DOLLARS in provable monetary losses is a real winner. When Zucker got his cushy job NBC was #1 now they are #4."

I used to be proud to say that I worked at NBC. No longer. When I was there, it was like being at Harvard, where excellence was recognized and rewarded. Now it's like some crummy community college where mediocrity is king and anybody can attend.

If NBC sues, add my name to the list of those who will be boycotting them. And writing their advertisers to inform them of the fact, of course.

And one more thing.
NBC and the AMPTP left the bargaining table in Decemeber.

Just up and walked away.

So his lawsuit is going to be about the WGA not bargaining with him while he rufused to bargain with them??? Case dismissed.

I seriously think Zucker might actually still literally suck his thumb. What a tool.

Awesome, file that suit Zucker.
Clearly he has not run this by the boys at GE yet.

I can hardly wait for the discovery and deposition process that will throw open the studio"s (and AMPTP's) entire strike strategy and internal communications process to everyone.

I will finally get to read those memos.
Probably right here on DHD.
Nothing like a legal filing to shed light on internal process and the people.

Bring it on Jeff.
You"re fellow moguls will love you for this Zucker.
You will truly never eat lunch in this town again.
This will be sooo good.

And the National Labor Relations Board will also get involved too as soon as any union is sued.

I"m tingling with excitement about this.
First the strike ends now this might happen.
I have to go now, I need a cigarette¦..

And BTW-take a look at the guy standing next to him. Could there be a better metaphor for Zucker's failure as a human being than Tiki Barber?

Take a look at this bullet-headed son of a bitch. What self-respecting woman would procreate with it?
This guy is a perfect representative of what is wrong with America...

Fuck NBC and Fuck Zucker.

Viewers may drop NBC from their favorites list.

Speaking as an attorney . . . because of the labor Laws that BS will get pitched. And what a way to piss off viewers even more. Right now the Networks have gotten some goodwill back. But, they are really as dumb as major record labels. Go ahead and sue ya morons.

There is no shows worth watching on NBC.
I was going to say I would block the station on my TV in protest of Zucker when I realized I don't watch NBC anymore.
Heh!

This has happened before. I believe a number of years ago American Airlines sued their pilots who went on strike for losses incured. I believe it was quickly dismissed, but it did put fear in those pilots and their union to give in at the next contract renewal. As others have mentioned, Jeff Zucker would be very foolish to do this as he help drive NBC TV into an also ran in the ratings and would make it difficult to hold contract negotiations with the actors which are coming up soon.

The viewing public should then sue NBC for allowing greed to rule and thereby interrupt our right to view new programming.

Someone please explain to Mr. Zucker the purpose of collective bargaining. Without solidarity you have a large corporation competing against an individual. No threat to the corporation - major threat to individual. When the networks and studios wouldn't work out a new deal with the WGA, both sides stopped profiting from the writer's creations. Hey dumbass, that's the point of a strike. Everybody suffers until a fair agreement can be ironed out.

That would be it for me and NBC - and GE.

And, should GE/NBC make such a naked attack on the rights of the working people of America, I would encourage all of those whom I know to likewise drop NBC as an advertising and entertainment medium and GE as a supplier.

That parental block capability is a wonderful thing, and it is not that hard to explain to the citizens of the 'netiverse.

(Not that big a sacrifice, anyway - to totally block NBC from your homes and offices is blocking what - a half dozen channels? Out of 30 to 60 - or more?)

Is there anyone out there that doesn't know the dirty little secret about the HFPA? They're a bunch of second rate, grog swilling, third world wannabe critics who happened to sucker the networks into believing they actually mattered. They rent a broom closet in Hollywood with an answering machine. They go on junkets. They take the studio swag. They are self important nobodies. They are a perfect match for mr. Zucker and the brain dead suits at 30 Rock. Good luck sueing a union, you turkeys, this is America, where the workers haven't yet been muzzled by the likes of you.

Shouldn't NBC be thinking about better shows? Most of what they have on now blows.

Shakespeare was right, "Hang the lawyers first." At the time of the Golden Globes the strike was effectively a lockout. Wall St. runs Hollywood and they'll trash almost anything for a quarterly dividend. One might argue the "Globes" were what brought the producers back to the table.
It'll be fun when the "rocket scientist" who came up with this one finds out such labor actions are protected under Federal law. NBC will probably promote them.

Like the V-Chip lady on TV says to the chainsaw massacre, ... "You (NBC) are just about the scariest undead thing I've ever seen, ... but I am going to have to block you" NBC!

Sue the WGA and I'll boycott every one of your channels, ... and stop buying GE too! Tht will be tough, ... my Dad worked for GE all his life. But my mom was a union teacher all her life, ... and I'm siding with the union!

Well as a Johnny Depp fan, I understand wanting to make someone pay for being deprived of his acceptance speech, but come on.
I should've sued NBC for Manimal.

Zucker could absolutely be sued by the GE/NBC stockholders for losing over One Billion Dollars. Any WGA members who also own GE stock could join this class action suit. In fact WGA members could each buy 10 or 20 shares of GE stock just so they can qualify for the class action.

What"s needed is a lawyer who yearns for a huge spotlight. Lawyers love big showbiz-oriented cases like this because they get enormous publicity and this one is very easy to win.

Going after the bald dumb egocentric schmuck putz asswipe who cost his company over ONE BILLION DOLLARS in provable monetary losses is a real winner. When Zucker got his cushy job NBC was #1 now they are #4.

Add up all the lost advertising money and Zucker can be held personally responsible. So the suit would be GE STOCKHOLDERS (including some new WGA stockholders) V. Jeff Zucker. NBC and GE won"t be listed as defendants. Only Zucker will be sued, personally.

He deserves this so who will be the first lawyer to get going on this?

Comment by Anonymous " February 12, 2008 @ 7:39 pm

This comment was copied from the original article. Sounds like a good idea.

Counter sue those criminal pricks and boycott them simultaneously.

Kucinich, Hillary and the WGA should sue for tens of $BILLIONS$. Put GE out of business, where they belong.

That should be some lawsuit. Is NBC a government entity where the workers are banned from striking? Isn't NBC one of the negotiating parties who could have settled at any point to save their show? With so few effective arrows in their quiver anymore workers have the right to to withdraw their labor in order to put economic pressure on intransigent employers such as NBC. Having lost the strike NBC wants another bite at the apple. Why aren't the right wing kooks in this country upset by this frivolous litigation?

Note to WGA: I'm telling you. You don't f**k with G.E.