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CBS News writers to vote on strike
2007-11-19
About 500 unionized news writers could soon join their creative colleagues on the picket line.
Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please ...
The writers, employees of CBS News television and radio, are expected to overwhelmingly approve a strike authorization. Represented by Writers Guild of America East, the writers were scheduled to vote Thursday.

WGA drama and comedy writers are entering the second week of an entertainment industry strike that has shaken network and cable television, threatening popular shows such as Fox's 24 and sending late-night talk shows, such as Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart, into unplanned reruns.

The CBS News television and radio writers have been working under an expired contract since April 2005, WGA East spokeswoman Sherry Goldman said. The strike authorization vote does not mean the writers — who work in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago — will necessarily stage a work stoppage, but neither side seemed optimistic.

"CBS News is prepared for the possibility of a writers strike. We will continue to make stuff up produce quality news programming for our viewers," CBS said in a statement. A spokeswoman said CBS News would not have any further comment.
But what will CBS News broadcast, if the "-tainment" is removed from their "info-tainment"?
Posted by:Anonymoose

#11  So who's going to make up the news?


Manatees?
Posted by: DMFD   2007-11-19 22:32  

#10  Jayson Blair is still looking for work, right?

What a natural fit!
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723   2007-11-19 22:24  

#9  You mean Perky Katie doesn't make up her own lies? She outsources them?

That's shocking.

Next you'll be telling me she's a bubble-headed MSM dipshit who couldn't find her ass with both hands and a flashlight.

Oh, wait....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-11-19 22:21  

#8  Tough Shit CBS and Writers.
Posted by: 3dc   2007-11-19 21:51  

#7  About 500 unionized news writers could soon join their creative colleagues on the picket line.

I would say that the news writers should be considered creative writers, based on MSM content. Since the creative writers are already on strike, logic sez the newzies, as creative writers themselves, should be pounding the pavement, too.

This is another golden moment to have the MSM self-destruct and maybe---just maybe---other sources can start informing the American public on the truth.

/big ole dream
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-11-19 20:45  

#6  So five hundred people are going to show they do nothing but rewrite the material already collected by AP and al Reuters. Maybe the execs at CBS can so some serious cost saving by outsourcing the entire division. Seriously, hire Univision with some bi-lingual anchor. Shift the focus off of Europe and back to our own hemisphere. Grab for the demographic of mixed generation households.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-11-19 20:27  

#5  Update:

CBS News writers authorize union to call a strike

See BS.
See BS writers walk out on strike.
See Katie cry.
See BS go titzup.
Ha, ha, ha.

Posted by: Dave D.   2007-11-19 19:54  

#4  They could bring back Honest Dan and Uncle Walter and just make up the news like they used to.
Posted by: ed   2007-11-19 18:03  

#3  You mean they might have to report actual news?!?! Oh the humanity!!!
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-11-19 17:02  

#2  But what will CBS News broadcast, if the "-tainment" is removed from their "info-tainment"?

Easy. Candlepin bowling...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-11-19 16:52  

#1  So who's going to make up the news?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2007-11-19 16:44  

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