TV Week ran an article Sunday, reporting that 17 entertainment blogs would go dark today, replacing their sites with statements showing their support of striking film and television writers. Though I don’t recall ever having read one of these blogs, I did take an interest in seeing whether any of them would follow through on [...]
Entertainment Blogs Break Promise to ‘Go Dark’
November 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments
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Writers Strike Causes Blogger to Reflect
November 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Awaking this morning to news that members of the film and television writers union (a.k.a., the Writers Guild of America) had gone on strike, I felt obliged to dedicate at least one post today to the topic of writers who refuse to write until they receive greater compensation for their efforts. To me, the thought [...]
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Hollywood Writers Strike Cause for Celebration
November 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
Without writers to provide fresh material for daytime soap operas, evening sitcoms and late-night talk shows, many of the television networks will be forced to air re-runs of those programs or something else. News of that possibility came yesterday in the form of an Associate Press article that reported film and television writers are prepared [...]
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