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| Iron Eagle | Posted – 1/2/2008 5:59:46 PM | show profile Now, there's something to live for! |
| roshob2003 | Posted – 1/2/2008 7:35:34 PM | show profile Letterman Returns! Question on the writers strike. Are the writers for the cable news shows union members? If they are not, do they have any recourse? |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 1/2/2008 7:46:18 PM | show profile I have no idea. He must have come to some sort of serious deal to continue that's acceptable to unions. He's probably agreed to some kind of residuals for Internet useage. |
| roshob2003 | Posted – 1/2/2008 8:07:11 PM | show profile Thanks for the answer. |
| roshob2003 | Posted – 1/2/2008 8:09:08 PM | show profile Are there writers unions in print media (magazines, newspapers, etc)? Would wonder what would happen if print media writers went on strike. |
| Cyrus | Posted – 1/2/2008 9:08:58 PM | show profile Print media writers negotiate contracts with each individual outlet.Outside the NY metro area, fewer and fewer media outlets are union anyway. Because so many film, TV, etc. writers don't really work for one specific company, they have a standard contract that spans across film and television. ------ Cyrus Afzali Astoria Communications www.astoriacomm.com |
| ManhattanMatt | Posted – 1/2/2008 10:35:43 PM | show profile Response. "Are the writers for the cable news shows union members? If they are not, do they have any recourse?" First of all, this writers strike involves only ENTERTAINMENT writers, not news writers. Secondly, there are no WGA writers at the cable news shows. Yes, they do have recourse. It's called "organizing". Nothing is stopping them but themselves. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 1/3/2008 12:28:07 AM | show profile It's bizzare the lengths the studios will go to avoid revenue sharing. We are entering a period when few things in media will have value unless you value your own work. I was thinking about this at a couple functions lately which would have normally be covered by professional photographers. Instead, staff with point and shoot digitals herded people into groups and snapped away. You can imagine the quality of the images yet in some ways they were probably acceptable and better than some who used to shoot film. |
| roshob2003 | Posted – 1/3/2008 9:21:40 PM | show profile What I find interesting is the rise of the "Citizen Journalist". A cell phone a digital camera and the right place make for an interesting combination that results in a new avenue for news. I know this does not exactly tie into this post, but one has to wonder if the "Citizen Journalist" will ever replace news media writers. I don't think so, but one never knows. |
