CBS News Writers to Strike?

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As if “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric needed any more bad news to accompany her dismal performance in the ratings.

Julia Boorstin, a CNBC correspondent, reported on CNBC’s November 13 “Power Lunch” that CBS News writers could be the next to join the two-week-old Hollywood writers’ strike.

“Some news writers may be joining their entertainment industry colleagues,” Boorstin said. “Five hundred unionized CBS Television and Radio writers are expected to vote to authorize a strike this Thursday. They’ve been working without a contract since April of 2005.”

According to Reuters, CBS sent a letter to Writers Guild of America members – some

500 writers, graphic artists, editors and producers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington – which urged them not to strike.

"CBS does not want you to strike, and we hope that you will carefully evaluate the terms of our final offer against the uncertainty of a strike in determining what is best for you and your families."


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How Sad!

How sad! 

Southern by birth, Tarheel by the grace of God!

Reruns

This will not hurt the news any, as they recycle news anyway.  We'll just get reruns on the news, as usual!

Hey!

Her Perkiness has writers?

Somebody actually writes the pablum and drivel she squeezes from her saurian pie-hole every night?

And they get Paid?

Now that's news!

 

 

 

I don't get it, does this

I don't get it, does this mean we will now just get the news?

Don't count on it Free.

Don't count on it Free. It'll be the same blather except with bad grammar and spelling.

Just like the way i post :-)

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

I'm sure the DNC will be

I'm sure the DNC will be glad to provide a script each day.

I thought they already did.

I thought they already did.

Can I take it that CBS is

Can I take it that CBS is admitting that their "news" programs are fictional?

Get Some Replacements

See-BS could always replace the striking writers-I hear Mary Mapes is looking for a job. Maybe also Danny Rather?

I'm looking for a downside ...

...and I don't see one.

Prayers answered

A few days ago, I wrote: "The only issue is how to free CBS's few remaining viewers of their blind trust." The majority of network news viewers only watch because of blind habit. How can we break the habit? Sure enough, the strike comes along. Experience shows that if you watch a show out of habit, and it goes away for a time, fewer and fewer people resume the habit when it comes back. Just when we needed a way to break the habit, circumstances provide it.

Which proves ...

  • The angels are listening.
    • Of course, the topic of network television never comes up in my prayer, so it must have been an answer for someone else.
    • So whoever is praying and getting their prayers answered, keep up the good work.
    • Not to press our luck, can we ask for some help with Olbermann? Just asking ...

news writers

Gee all this time they tried to make us believe they were REPORTING the news. Now they admit they have been writing it all along.  Guess that means a lot of us have been right all this time and not just nasty old conservatives.

Just hope the make-up

Just hope the make-up artists never go on strike.

So, does this mean we can

So, does this mean we can all look forward to seeing the kind of insightful writing she does on her blog, now on the Evening News? Somebody stop her...

Somebody actually gets paid

Somebody actually gets paid to write that BS?  Why does Miss Katie get paid so much just to read it?  jeesh! Only in America.

Everyone together

Everyone together now:

AWWWWWWWWWWW!!

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}}---> News, Unions and Guv'mint

Anybody else see a severe conflict of interest when a political interest group wields power over the press?

  Great; now who's going

 

Great; now who's going to tell us how evil the white, middle-aged, SUV-owning conservative Christian male is?

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