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On Being a Female Writer in the TV Business

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 12.11.2007 | Entertainment

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Throw a dart in this town and you'll hit a male comedy writer. But the issues are the same for all of us.

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Unions Support WGA, Fire Labor Busting Spinner Chris Lehane

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

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SEIU Local 99 in LA yesterday fired former Clinton spokesman Chris Lehane from a consulting contract in support of the WGA . The decision came after Lehane began consulting for the AMPTP.

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WGA Strike: What Are the Deal Points?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.10.2007 | Entertainment

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Negotiations have broken off for the time being at least, but it's still important to understand what's at issue. There are now several recent proposals that have been publicly disclosed, as I had hoped would be the case.

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NBC Quietly Refunds Unhappy 4Q Advertisers

Ad Week | John Consoli | Posted 12.10.2007 | Business

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NBC has quietly begun reimbursing advertisers for fourth-quarter prime-time ratings shortfalls, averaging about $500,000 per advertiser, according to ...

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Hollywood Workers Urge Talks As Writers, Producers Walk Away From The Table

New York Times | Michael R. Blood | Posted 12.10.2007 | Media

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The Hollywood strike is rewriting the holidays for idled workers. With her income pinched, script supervisor Petra Jorgensen canceled an annual trip ...

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How Eerie Are the Parallels Between the Behavior of the AMPTP and the Behavior of the Bush Administration?

Gary Rosen | Posted 12.09.2007 | Entertainment

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When the CEOs of the AMPTP dub their cash and power grab a New Economic Partnership, doesn't it sound like "Operation Enduring Freedom" or the "Clear Skies Initiative"?

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WGA Strike Primer: Merry Christmas from Your Friends at the AMPTP

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.08.2007 | Entertainment

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The AMPTP corporations will now be putting out how wonderful and decent and put-upon they are, and how grubbing the sniveling writers are. And how evil WGA leaders are. Watch.

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"Prodese Quam Conspici"

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 12.07.2007 | Entertainment

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As we go into the second half of December, I remain entirely certain that my Guild will prevail. It will do so through solidarity, through an educated, energized, politicized membership, and through the cool, calm anger of the just.

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Writers' Strike Diary: Rumors and "Information"

John Ridley | Posted 12.07.2007 | Entertainment

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"Information" -- the dispensation of rumors passed off as news -- has become kinda a cottage industry. Remember that "deal" that was oh so in place last Monday?

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Report: Producers Close To Walking Out Of Strike Talks

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 12.07.2007 | Media

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I wish I had better news about the AMPTP-WGA contract negotiations, but I don't. To sum up, they suck. I took extra time reporting tonight, and some v...

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St. Nick Counter

Ken Levine | Posted 12.07.2007 | Entertainment

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Twas the night before Christmas... Nick Counter settles in a nice night's sleep after six months of telling writers there's no money or future in the internet. Suddenly, he hears a voice.

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WGA Strikers: Don't Cross the Streams

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.07.2007 | Media

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If the writers actually agree to some formula that contemplates "per use" of their work, they are going to get screwed. It will make their home video deal look like a trip to Disneyworld.

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Just Work: Do the Write Thing

Ursula Epps and Alba Vasquez | Posted 12.06.2007 | Entertainment

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We might not be able to provide as much for our children as those producers and CEOs at the top, but we will do whatever we must to achieve our own American dream.

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Writers Guild Strike Primer: Part 8, The Big Question

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.06.2007 | Entertainment

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The AMPTP is comprised of competitors. And they are negotiating together against labor?? In heaven's name -- why?

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Producer: Talks "Going Backwards"

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media

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The largest part of today's negotiations were taken over by the WGA's small group discussion of jurisdiction for Reality TV and made-for-Web content a...

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Writers Optimistic After "Substantive" Talks

AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media

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Both sides in the Hollywood writers strike expressed optimism that progress was being made in contract negotiations aimed at ending a five-week walkou...

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They Were Wrong

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 12.05.2007 | Entertainment

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This labor action should serve to put the purveyors of mega-new media corporatism on notice that the old game, the old trope of "schmucks with Underwoods," is at this point almost entirely denuded of any truth or viability.

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The Buyers' Long Term Plan, and an Idea for the WGA

Alec Baldwin | Posted 12.04.2007 | Entertainment

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The strike may go on for a variety of reasons. On one hand, the writers are cursed because they are right on most issues but they are awful negotiators. The studios have a different problem.

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Strike Talks Proving Unproductive

AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media

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In statements circulated by producers and striking writers, a relatively scant $20 million appears to separate their contract proposals. But the diff...

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Strike Giving Way To New Crop Of Reality Shows

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media

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As original episodes of scripted comedies and dramas dry up because of the Writers Guild of America strike, reality competitions and game shows are li...

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Writers' Strike Diary: It's Officially Ugly

John Ridley | Posted 12.03.2007 | Entertainment

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If there's no movement this week, expect the AMPTP to bypass the guild and negotiate in earnest with the Directors Guild. If that's the case, look for an early March end to the strike. Best case.

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Jimmy Kimmel, Quiet Hero: Been Paying Staff Since Strike Began

TMZ | Posted 12.03.2007 | Media

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Jimmy Kimmel loves the little people -- who work on this show, that is. TMZ has learned that Kimmel, host of his own late night show on ABC, has been ...

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Tonight Show Staffers Laid Off, But Leno Will Cover Their Salaries

The Hollywood Reporter | Paul Bond | Posted 12.02.2007 | Media

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Jay Leno will pay out of his pocket the salaries of some 80 staffers of "The Tonight Show" who were laid off on Friday for at least the next week, a s...

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Tonight Show Lays Off 120 Staffers

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 11.30.2007 | Media

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Nonwriting staff members of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" became the latest casualties of the four-week Hollywood writers strike when they were lai...

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The Writers Guild Strike Primer: Part 7, the Trust Factor

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.30.2007 | Entertainment

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No one thinks the strike is fun. No one. The viral videos are fun. The ridiculing blogs are fun. The strike? Quite awful. But John Ridley, for whatever unknown reason, wants you to think otherwise.

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