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Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike

Posted by kdawson on from the gonna-be-a-backlog dept.

BlueshiftVFX writes to let us know that the writers' strike may be over. CNBC and other media are quoting former Disney CEO Michael Eisner: "It's over. They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general... A deal has been made, and they'll be back to work very soon."

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  1. Was that still going on? by LWATCDR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I didn't even notice it to be honest.

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  2. I guess by bigpaperbag · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That means next season will be back for most shows. I wonder how this will relate to current season DVD releases. You would think they will be bundled with another season or sold as very low prices. Which ironically is the writer's shooting themselves in the foot, because even if they get more shares in dvd/download profits, they've made there be less to sell/download. This whole strike is a farce. The WGA is sickening. I'm sure there are plenty of poor little writers out there who think this might actually help them, but I bet any deal ends up highly favoring the top end writers. I hope Eisner's comment about top dollar contracts being canceled is true. Teach them that whining for months and not working is not how you get more money.

  3. Re:This is news for nerds... by tritonman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    oh thank God it's over! Now I can finally stop not giving a rats ass about it! I almost cared as much about this as I cared about the baseball players strike.

  4. Cue comments from by mattgoldey · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    all the condescending douchebags who are far too intelligent to watch television.

  5. Re:Seems like noone won by guruevi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Any type of way to fire unions is a good way to me. I have never been unionized and I don't want to be either. Unions are for people that don't want to work very much, get mediocre wages and get their @$$ outsourced asap. They don't care about the economics. If it weren't for the unions, we would still have decent jobs here in the West, maybe not payed as well overall but people would be forced to get the skills and get to working or lose their job. This would've in turn be a good thing for the economy since more people working (albeit somewhat lower wages) means more people spending money and less people profiteering of the welfare systems in many Westerner countries.

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  6. I don't give a crap about the WGA by billcopc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They all stopped writing good shows about a decade ago. I say fuck 'em all!

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