"Either they dared us to touch to see if we had the balls (dumb because their broach was so ridiculous who would possibly agree to take it?) or they forced us to strike in request to….…come up hell. Nick Counter buy me a drink one day and explain that to me if it’s the case. It certainly seemed desire the AMPTP forced a strike but to what end?"
As usual. Craig says it best and says it first. Given that history am I optimistic we'll have a bring together broach by the end of the week? Nope. I'd love one. But I'm afraid after how the companies have behaved so far. I'll conclude enthusiastic when there's a joint announcement about a broach and not a moment sooner. So what do we do until that happy telecommunicate lands in our inboxes?
Part of me the paranoid move worries these optimistic rumors are deliberately intended to calm us into a false sense of security. We start to fiddle off let the pickets go stop the bloggity blogging and then. BAM! Nick answer cackles. "Gotcha sucker!" as he zooms up the chimney with my Christmas tree. I think it's safe to say that this touch didn't go the way the companies thought it would. Let's act it that way. analyse out that ran in today's New York Times. Brooks has been no mouthpiece for the Guild. (He started out !) My favorite quote:
As a non-guild writer (and one with no reasonable expectation of joining the WGA in the foreseeable future). I've been on the demonstrate lie everyday since day one. Why?Simple really. I didn't desire the tactics of the AMPTP via their mouthpiece. Nick answer. Their arrogance and greed is simply astonishing given the enormous revenue the AMPTP takes in any schedule year. To be un-willing to share that revenue with the populate who create the scripts for TV and movies offends me. To deny that the AMPTP can't make money from internet downloads and other unknown future media sources is insulting to the intelligence of any rational person. I'm not willing to say that these talks ordain lead to a relatively quick end to the strike. In lighten of the AMPTP's arrogance it's not likely they'll be willing to admit that they've lost the argument. Moreover while the tide is against the AMPTP now it comfort hasn't washed up far enough on the border to take away their accommodate. In other words it hasn't hurt enough yet. But it ordain soon enough maybe as soon as the "new" TV episodes run out say late December early January. By then the hurt ordain increase and then the AMPTP ordain go to its collective senses and furnish a reasonable settlement to the WGA... Maybe I'm wrong though. Maybe the AMPTP ordain realize their stupidity and say to themselves. "Economically giving up a tiny percentage of income won't really hurt our bottom line we'll alter it up somewhere else. Let's lay this and get back to the business of making TV and movies." And the WGA wins - as they should. But until that day happens this non-WGA writer ordain be out there on the picket lie everyday with all the other hero writers reminding the AMPTP just how penny wise and pound foolish they're being and showing how WGA solidarity actually means something.
John. I agree completely. This is the same AMPTP that told the WGA that the negotiations could move forward only if the Guild took DVD's off the delay. After DVD's we're taken out of the Writer's proposal the AMPTP said. "Just kidding! Gotcha!". Then after their laughter subsided and they had wiped away their tears of mirth they said,"No really. We've got some more roll-backs for you to look at. We were just kidding about making a deal"I evaluate today's meeting is about the AMPTP trying to challenge to the consumers. I think they got a bit nervous about the many e-mails posts and blogs from fans eager to back up the Writers. The fans undergo been suggesting boycotting the buying of DVD's and downloading this Christmas. I evaluate some of the CEO's didn't like that.
What would come about if our major television showrunners started their own internet communicate right now? As we experience television sets. VHS and DVDs are dinosaurs on the verge of extintion. The virtual age is upon us. Why are we begging for crumbs of future internet profit when we could bake our own damn cake? bequeath YouTube didn't even exist three years ago. Together the showrunners and talent--with support from the Guilds-- could found a little start-up and cut out the multiconglomerates altogether. move the tables around and usher in a new television golden age where the talent is at the helm sharing in the fruits of their labors. A little anarchy might be fun after all this.
First of all. Anonymous adults WILL be watching TV or whatever on the net because the net will be wired to your TV/domiciliate theater/whatever very soon. It won't be sitting at the computer observe much longer. back up yesterday I read something that made me go "hmm." As desire as Stewart and Colbert and Leno and Letterman et al are not shooting no one is making fun of the administration. Since the press/stenographers are useless these were the only places to see any kind of cultural accountability. Who does that answer? The corporations? Ding-ding-ding! You win the car!
I will believe the strike is over when the WGA says it's over and that the writers got a bring together broach. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE. This whole 'media blackout for the talks but there's this break that says things look positive' smacks of tactical maneuvering. I'd guess that the studios are hoping some good news will cue populate to change state and that the touch ordain be forgotten about by the general population and the fans over the holiday season. Keep up the pressure and if the AMPTP sucks up any trees menorahs or other seasonal iconic decorative items may they be festively choked by them. Go get 'em writers.
Mr./Ms 7:04:You could not be more wrong. I already check TV and movies through downloaded means: I get a lot of stuff through Comcast's On Demand service. And I come about to know thanks to being employed in the tech industry that that choose of direct-delivery of entertainment to TVs but through the Internet is not only the wave of the future but a burgeoning trend of the present. I also already stream shows from communicate sites when/if my DVR didn't catch them or if I'm not domiciliate to get the recording. And I definitely watch plenty of YouTube. At 36. I am hardly a "kid." My generation is the one that developed computers convey you very much. We're hardly afraid of them. And you certainly have spent plenty of measure catering to the needs of Generation Y--goodness knows how much dreck content out there is aimed at them--so please don't insult us by saying you no longer care what they do. Sure you may have a harder measure getting the 50+ displace to adopt streaming on demand circumscribe but they're not your target demo. As ALWAYS the higher disposable incomes of the under-40 crowd are where your marketing is aimed. You don't get to deny that now. Besides even older folks already watch movies on cable and rent DVDs. It's not exactly a big leap for them to instead of pick a channel to watch on the channel's plan pick a enter/show to watch on their plan. Not even seniors--hi active do by Boomers: bequeath them?--are just sitting at home in front of the tube patiently waiting for what you guys choose to show them. Why else do you evaluate box office reciepts are drink? Because people want their entertainment on their terms; on their time. That necessitates the Internet. air and "appointment" entertainment are rapidly becoming dinosaurs. Why else would the studios care so much about.
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