Big Media Moguls Beginning To Exact Revenge On Pro-WGA Hollywooders

[villager]

Source: Deadline Hollywood

Bratty Big Media Moguls Are Beginning To Exact Revenge On Pro-WGA Hollywooders

What an incredible list of petty, mean-spirited and just spiteful behavior the Hollywood CEOs are compiling for themselves. Really, they're never going to be able to explain away this stuff when the strike eventually ends and they're held accountable by everyone else. I've been confirming episode after episode of the AMPTP's giant multimedia members retaliating in every way possible against anyone in Hollywood helping the WGA's side in this strike dragging on and on. I'll keep updating as more instances come in to me (so keep refreshing for the latest):

-->Disney/ABC has decided not to pay for hair and make-up and even cars for its stars going to the SAG awards, something the studios and networks always do, since the actors have aligned themselves with the WGA and the SAG show received a Writers Guild waiver while it's increasingly unlikely that the Oscars televised by ABC will. "Their reasoning is that they don't want to pay for SAG actors to get all dressed up only to bad-mouth the studio on the Red Carpet," a source told me. Oh, like that couldn't happen at the Academy Awards, too, although ABC wouldn't air it.

-->Harvey Weinstein received a number of phone calls from the moguls warning him "You shouldn't do it," and "We can get this done with the DGA," when word leaked out that he was making a side deal with the WGA to be able to hire striking writers.

-->Plans are being floated to kick out any company from the Motion Picture Association of America, the American film industry's trade association, if it makes a side deal with the WGA during the strike. While most movie production companies are members of the MPAA, much fewer belong to the AMPTP made up of the Big Media corporations.

-->NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker has tried to bump both NBC 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan and NBC Celebrity Apprentice star Donald Trump from the recent guest rosters of The Late Show with David Letterman whose parent company Worldwide Pants did a side deal with the WGA to hire striking writers. Zucker's network minions tried to convince both men not to appear on the show. But Zucker allowed late night rival Jimmy Kimmel to guest on Leno and Leno to guest on Kimmel.

-->Zucker earlier bullied striking NBC comedy writers from Saturday Night Live not to appear on Letterman's first Late Show back from strike hiatus and announce the Top 10. The scribes were ordered by NBC to leave the Ed Sullivan Theater right before the taping. By doing so, they couldn't collect their personal appearance pay. But NBC found out too late that writers for Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Law & Order did the bit and Zucker wanted the names of everyone who participated and worked at NBC.

-->Zucker refused to allow the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to hold an untelevised Golden Globes awards ceremony even though it would have been unpicketed by the WGA and the actors, directors, writers as well as Hollywood studios and networks who won could have been celebrated.

-->NBC Entertainment co-czar on Monday told his new best friend, the no-talent Ryan Seacrest before the Golden Globes awards show was officially scrapped that, "Sadly, it feels like the nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids in the high school are trying to cancel the prom. But NBC wants to try to keep that prom alive." (Now there's a T-shirt for sale benefitting the WGA strike fund that reads, "Nerdy. Ugly. Mean. Proud of it. WGA.")

-->AMPTP staffers, consultants and members (especially corporate publicity departments) are busily posting comments on WGA-friendly websites and blogs that Hollywood visits regularly and filling them with hate-filled rants against the WGA leadership, the A-list actors, and the companies who've made WGA side deals. The goal is to turn off readers and drive traffic away and in the process spread pro-AMPTP propaganda and make it look as if the strike is breaking apart.

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Read more: http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/bratty-behavior-as-big-media-moguls-retaliate-against-hollywood-helping-strikers/

[wtmusic]

1. Between the lines, good news

The producers and nets are hurting. Rock on, WGA.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. I really like the T shirt "Nerdy. Ugly. Mean. Proud of it. WGA"

:rofl:

Hey Zucker, et. al., do you not realize that you're battling writers, for whom sharp, rapier wit is second nature? Keep it up, moran. :rofl:

MKJ

:kick:

[blondeatlast]

6. Wow--I want one! Where's you see that?

I didn't see it in the link?! :shrug:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

16. Right here!

http://www.cafepress.com/wganbc

:-)

MKJ

[DCKit]

3. Didn't retaliation of this sort used to be illegal? Thanks again *. n/t

[cstanleytech]

10. What part/parts are you talking about exactly?

Most of what was mentioned seems legal to me after all, slimy, but legal.

[ladywnch]

4. what? you think this is going to keep them away from the awards?

you think they can't afford those things on their own?!!! And they'll STILL bash you on the red carpet and now you've just given them more ammunition! LOL

<<<<Disney/ABC has decided not to pay for hair and make-up and even cars for its stars going to the SAG awards, something the studios and networks always do, since the actors have aligned themselves with the WGA and the SAG show received a Writers Guild waiver while it's increasingly unlikely that the Oscars televised by ABC will. "Their reasoning is that they don't want to pay for SAG actors to get all dressed up only to bad-mouth the studio >>>>>>>>>


<<<<NBC Entertainment co-czar on Monday told his new best friend, the no-talent Ryan Seacrest >>>> I agree Ryan Seacrest is about as talented and Kato Kalin (sp?) and Paris Hilton! LOL and I'm sure he knows which side his bread is buttered on. He'll suck on them real hard to keep his job.


These guys just don't get it. The more they muck with this the worse it gets for them. I haven't talked to one person who thinks the Studios/Networks are the innocents here. they seem to forget the first rule when you find yourself in a hole.......PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!!!!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. kick for the open infiltration by the studios of WGA friendly websites and blogs. Sound familiar?

:kick:

MKJ

[villager]

8. Indeed, where have we seen *that* before?

;-)

[Stephanie]

18. Very familiar

Sounds rather desperate, too.

[Fierce]

7. Stay strong, WGA!

Solidarity!

[gratuitous]

9. Good thinking, movie moguls

Piss off folks who make their living by writing. No way that's going to come back and bite you. For decades to come. In every venue and forum you can think of, both overt (where the audiences will laugh at you) and covert (where insiders will find even greater hilarity). Go ahead and throw another haymaker while exposing a jaw of glass.

[villager]

11. start noting the names of future villains in TV shows & films!

;-)

[AX10]

12. And Hollywood is supposed to be a liberal town?

I think not. Hollywood is run by the same thugs that run Wall Street.
Ken Lay would have fit in quite well.

[villager]

14. well, "run by," and "works in," are two different categories, yes?

n/t

[damntexdem]

13. Jon Stewart toss out: "The Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, ...

or NAMBLA."

[colonel odis]

15. networks should be more concerned with the refunds and bonus time they'll

have to give advertisers in the near and not-so-near future than with what writers are or aren't doing.

i work in the advertising business and heard from a friend at the local NBC affiliate that the network is already having to issue refunds and credits to its big advertisers.

dumbasses.

[blogslut]

21. Bingo

The advertisers will be the one that end this strike.

[Lisa]

17. ugly is as ugly does.

So writers are "nerdy, ugly, and mean", are they?

Someone's doing a bit of projecting here, don't you think? (Except for the "nerdy" part. I'm pretty nerdy, and I -- and all my actual nerd friends -- are supporting the WGA. One thing about nerds is -- we know enough math to figure out exploitation when we see it.)

[live love laugh]

19. Soundslike DU--especially the last part...

"AMPTP staffers, consultants and members (especially corporate publicity departments) are busily posting comments on WGA-friendly websites and blogs that Hollywood visits regularly and filling them with hate-filled rants against the WGA leadership, the A-list actors, and the companies who've made WGA side deals. The goal is to turn off readers and drive traffic away and in the process spread pro-AMPTP propaganda and make it look as if the strike is breaking apart."

change that to:

"RIGHTWING staffers, consultants and members (especially corporate publicity departments) are busily posting comments on democratic-friendly websites and blogs ...and filling them with hate-filled rants against the democratic leadership...

The goal is to turn off readers and drive traffic away and in the process spread propaganda and make it look as if the democratic party is breaking apart."

[Pachamama]

20. Here's a message for the Jeff Zucker's and the rest of them: Your TV line up these days SUCKS!!!

I turn on the TV and it makes the garbage from before the strike look great. I'm getting tired of re-runs or canceled shows being resurrected from the bowels of the storage warehouse. I don't find Jimmy Kimmel or Leno appearing on eachothers shows to talk to eachother "interesting" and these "Reality Shows" like American Gladiator or the "Dance Wars of Carrie and Bruno" are so pathetic, even their commercials make me turn off the TV.

The big fat Execs in Hollywood and TV Land better strike a deal real soon with the writers because I for one am no longer watching TV other than for the occassional news, which is a whole other story when you have to choose from the Tucker Carlson's and Chris Matthews.... :puke:

I bet DVD sales are up and I've noticed I'm on the internet a whole lot more and I've actually finished a couple of books lately!

(so maybe the strike isn't so bad afterall?)