Comments on: The Writers Guild East Plunges into New Media

By: bobf

bobf — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:52:44 +0000

Instead of just fighting to protect the narrow, economic interests of a small group of corporate advertising-sponsored and corporate media-employed writers, perhaps the Writers Guild of America-East should be fighting for both U.S. writer-media workers and U.S. working-class community control over all U.S. television networks and an immediate end to institutional classism, institutional racism, institutional sexism and media censorship of U.S. anti-war voices at the U.S. television networks.

By: WGAe Tries to Bridge New Media Divide

WGAe Tries to Bridge New Media Divide — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:34:40 +0000

[...] and new media. This initiative corralled a slew of new media signatories (full list below) and brought them together to form a New Media Caucus within the [...]

By: Scott Nap

Scott Nap — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:38:28 +0000

ISSUES will have a presence at the Paley Center event, and I’m really looking forward to catching up with some of the people on the panel. What the WGAE is doing is a huge step forward for those of us who are trying to make New Media into a legitimate creative outlet as well as a financially balanced institution. The WGA West would do well to take a page from the East’s playbook on this one, methinks.

By: Casey McKinnon

Casey McKinnon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:12:41 +0000

We need this on the West coast as well!!!