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A WGA executive points out the following to me:
Unlike every other article posted online today about the announcement of the 2011 Writers Guild Awards TV nominations, E! Online (part of E! network owned by Comcast Entertainment Group) decided to delete all of the nominated writers’ names in their article. Is this how Comcast feels about WGA members/writers and their contributions to quality TV programming? Do you think this has anything to do with CEG’s own resistance to bargain in good faith with Comcast writers currently working for E!, Style, and G4 who’ve asked Comcast to enter into talks with the Guild?
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Wow, once again, WGA proves it is the dumbest union in Hollywood. Getting upset over a supposed snub by a gossip site that focuses on D-listers like the Kardashians and Paris Hilton?! LOL….No wonder why union membership is decreasing. Watch out The Onion and TMZ, I hear this “WGA executive” is coming after you next!
While I agree it is dumb to point out that Comcast deleted names, you’re a bit of an ass making a comment about the content of the channel. There are writers working at those channels. And they need to be unionized.
17 Million people watch NCIS each week. I’d bet less than 100 people could tell you who wrote the episode they just watched. Doesn’t make the snub right, but people reading on E! could care less. Most people could care less. And I said most not all.
A) 17 million people are wrong. That show is abysmal.
B) It’s an article ABOUT THE WGA WRITING AWARDS. E! Online didn’t write the article themselves, they just took the WGA’s press release and reposted it… after removing the names of the nominated writers. That’s petty. The ENTIRE POINT of the awards is to reward great writers with some publicity. Why write an article if you’re not going to honor the spirit of the awards?
It’s not a matter of “people reading on E! could care less.” What matters is the writer gets to see in print his/her name as having been recognized for an accomplishment.
That isn’t true any more. With the advent of the Internet where the studios put out various special things to lure fans onto the websites of their shows and writers writing blogs for the websites and their own blogs and many of the writers tweeting about their shows, lots of viewers can not only tell you who wrote the episode they just watched, but if they like that writer’s work on the show and which writers write episodes they like. They may not know a writers credits, but there are many these days that can tell you which writers write what on their shows. Viewers are a lot more knowledgeable than you think.
Say what you will about programming but that’s a pretty low move on comcast’s part to not mention the names of those nominated out of spite.
comcast is fighting against the streaming internet model (which pays writers nothing) to preserve the broadcast / cable subscription model, which still pays writers something.
weirdly, i think writers should be on the side of comcast and against net neutrality.
just a thought.
WGA might want to get over itself a little. It looks like this writer was just trying to tighten up the story by focusing on the programs instead of the individual writers. I don’t think it was an intentional slight, but rather a journalistic choice. The fact that they’re all butt hurt seems rather childish of a response.
Comcast is supposed to appeal to the viewers of their programming, not to the ego’s of a group of writers.
Snub? No, for some reason people see a long article and move on. Comcast probably condensed it down to what they felt their audience wanted to read about.
Not eveything is a conspiracy theory!
Yes well, “who cares?” might be the general and popular response to this. Writers rarely flex muscle unless they cross over to directing. Their anonymity and contrition to credit, amongst other things, continues to be the reason they always get f**ked
I’m in the union and love seeing my name in print whenever possible, but this does seem like a stretch on the WGA’s part.
That’s on par with not bothering to mention actors’ names for the SAG awards or directors’ names for DGA awards – it just shows how conglomerates tend to view the very TALENT that creates their “products” as mere workers and/or nameless drones.