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Gee, could the Big Media cartel’s negotiating group be more unpleasant about this meeting? I said this during the writers strike and it bears repeating: Just keep talking. Just keep haggling. Don’t stop talking:
July 15, 2008: Statement by the AMPTP… “SAG’s negotiators have requested a sidebar meeting with AMPTP involving a small group of people from each side. Out of respect for the SAG membership, the AMPTP has agreed to the meeting but has made it clear that the meeting will be solely for the purpose of listening to whatever SAG has to say. It is important to note that SAG has declined to specify the purpose of the meeting, and that AMPTP continues to call on SAG’s Hollywood leaders to accept AMPTP’s final offer. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 1PM at the AMPTP’s headquarters.
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Well, Ms. Nikki it’s nice to read your post, but it’s so much more interesting to listen to you on the radio. Good job on your interview with Frank M. @ 1:50 this afternoon.
Nikki. Wow…
I wish you had promoted the fact that you were going to be on the radio a bit more. I think a lot of us NIKKI ADDICTS would have loved to hear your take on the business and whatever it was that you discussed.
Your column is leaps and bounds the most exciting, controversial and candidly exasperating column on the business.
Is there anywhere we can go on-line to hear the show?
Please let us know.
Go forward with Passion!
You were fab on KNX.
I have a serious question, why don’t the various Hollywood/entertainement guilds and unions push for anti-trust investigations on the moguls/conglomerates/AMPTP?
I mean when a group pretty much has set themselves up to be immune to market forces then isn’t that a sign something very grave has happened within a particular business community wherein the workers and consumers are ultimately done a diservice and are taken advantage of?
to Von Bruno – the AMPTP is not a organization that is getting together to set prices. Therefore they are not violating any anti-trust laws.
They are a merely organizational convenience for the guilds to help them negotiate overall deals in the tv/movie industry. Yes, the guilds could negotiate separate deals with every entity in Hollywood but this would be both logistically unwieldy (if not impossible) and hugely expensive.
The guilds find it easy to make side deals during an AMPTP negotiation process since all these deals will be moot anyway once the AMPTP negotiation is complete. This ease would go away in a New York minute if the deals had to be binding.