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Stewart, Colbert to return. I support the writer’s strike (they should get the same royalties across all media) but a primary campaign without Stewart and Colbert is a national calamity.

Comments closed — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Friday, December 21, 2007, at 8:07 am by Luis Villa. Filed in misc..

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  1. Thomas Thurman

    While I think it’s for the good of the country that these two are working during an election season, I think this looks too much like strikebreaking even if it isn’t on a technicality. And what are they going to do without writers, stand up and look pretty? They’re WGA members themselves, so they can’t even write their own stuff.

    Posted on 21-Dec-07 at 9:13 am | Permalink
  2. Luis

    I tend to view strikebreaking as a good thing, or at least not an unalloyed wrong. Collective bargaining is a necessary counterweight to the oligopolistic tendencies of employers, but that doesn’t make the pure monopoly of a successful union a good thing- merely a necessary evil. And so strikebreaking can be a very useful corrective/signal to an overzealous union, which otherwise has few natural correctives.

    (And in this particular case, frankly, the likely poor quality of the product without the writers will probably be the best publicity the writers can get.)

    Posted on 21-Dec-07 at 9:17 am | Permalink

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  1. TV with MeeVee on 26-Dec-07 at 1:27 pm

    links from Technoraticrossing the picket lines and returning to work next week. That’s bad news for the other strikers, but it’s great for laid-off production crews, not to mention audiences. Even union-sympathizing viewers likeintellectual-property bloggersare excited to see Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart return to the air for primary election season. Most of the returning late-night hosts are WGA members, and have promised not to do any writing or perform any written material. That means no skits,

  2. TV with MeeVee: Writer's Strike on 28-Dec-07 at 12:18 pm

    Kramer auto Pingback[...] great for laid-off production crews, not to mention audiences. Even union-sympathizing viewers like intellectual-property bloggers are excited to see Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart return to the air for primary election [...]

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