Writers Guild Strike

[Electrostatic]

I was just thinking about this, and It could be a huge benefit for us...

None of the talking heads are going to have professional scripts to read from. Anyone else see the importance of this?

[foofighter20x]

That's for television shows, ... Not for news stations. :p Reporters aren't screenwriters.

[UtahApocalypse]

Many of the news shows (Nightly News, Nightline) Those type do have writers. A bigger thing is the late night and daytime talk shows. Some already are going into reruns. The tonight show with Ron Paul very possibly could end up getting rerun :)

[Electrostatic]

So called "reporters" read from scripts nowadays.
You hadn't noticed?

[scottabing]

Writers Guild strike should not effect "news" programming. Although, as speculated it would more than likely cause "late night tv" to go into reruns.

[philipsantamaria]

We'll get a LENO RE RUN Next WEEK

[dircha]

I'm pretty sure that on cable political pundit/commentator shows they go off of a teleprompter for transitions and to introduce segments.

[foofighter20x]

So called "reporters" read from scripts nowadays.
You hadn't noticed?

Keep trying... You may come up with something close to the truth eventually... :rolleyes:

News shows essentially have researchers, copy editors, and producers.

Researchers dig up the facts, copy editors write it up, producers spin it, and the talent makes whatever subtle little last edits they feel are necessary.

[Brian4Liberty]

Those arrogant screen writers, who do they think they are? They make plenty of money. They are getting along just fine. Writers are a dime a dozen, you can get a dozen new ones tomorrow, probably better and cheaper ones. We get over 10,000 resumes a day from them. A recruiter contacted us yesterday with over 50 prime candidates, thoroughly screened from over a 1,000 resumes. Plus we have over a billion candidates we can bring in from overseas. And they are better writers than most of the Americans. The education system is so bad in the US that we can't find any good writers. This is a global market, and we are confident that our current lobbying efforts in Congress will result in even more prime candidates being given an equal opportunity to compete for these jobs. We'll show those striking writers. They won't have a job...we'll bring in college students as interns who will work for free.




:rolleyes:

[V-rod]

I hope this doesn't affect South Park!

[J Free]

This is a huge huge opportunity. We MUST take advantage of this.

If this drags on awhile, people are gonna be turning off their TV. And that means they are very likely to come over to our turf (the Internet).

This is the difference between an away game and a home game folks.

We seriously have to figure out a way to capture people here. They aren't going to be going online to be educated -- but they sure as heck can be educated while they are being entertained.

Any ideas for how we can BECOME the mass media?

[Electrostatic]

Keep trying... You may come up with something close to the truth eventually... :rolleyes:

News shows essentially have researchers, copy editors, and producers.

Researchers dig up the facts, copy editors write it up, producers spin it, and the talent makes whatever subtle little last edits they feel are necessary.

WRONG!!! Toldya so... :D

"Nearly 300 CBS News writers who belong to the Writers Guild of America have voted to authorize a strike against the network, the union said Monday."

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cbs-news-writers-authorize-strike/story.aspx?guid=%7B22E9A420-8BB0-4C13-A274-5C65AADBEA71%7D