This is the ‘Real Talk’ part of our programming…
Many of you know that there is a strike ongoing for the content creators of television and motion pictures. These writers are tired of the media conglomerates caking up ridiculously off their backsweat. There are all kinds of ways that corporations like Universal, Sony, Warner Brothers and Viacom re-purpose their work, but then also deny these folks the residuals that should be credited to them.
If Universal strikes a deal with an internets video provider to allow the online distribution of certain programming shouldn’t the creators of that programming receive monetary credit since Universal is charging the advertisers that attach their products to the online content?
Hell chea!
I ride with the writers all day every day not just because I want to be part of their fraternity one day, but because these people individually do more for the American economy and way of life than the corporations do. Fuck around and see if Viacom doesn’t outsource rap music from Pakistan when they find a revenue stream for Hindurabic ringtones.
Corporations are being mismanaged by AYN RAND disciples and that bitch had a heart colder than a prostitute during winter in Siberia. The new phrase I would like you all to ingest and memorize is ‘COMPASSIONATE CAPITALISM’. I’m tired of the notion that capitalism must squeeze the lifeblood out of everyone EXCEPT the capitalists. At some point there won’t be anything left and who will pick up the pieces when things fall apart?
Some of my folks decided to watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ last weekend since they never get to watch it regularly even after I had just gifted them the ‘Orange County’ DVD. Their behavior was directly counterintuitive to the writer’s strike and when Universal colludes with the cable television providers and establishes that their viewership remains strong this prolongs the strike. Don’t be like these people. Kill your television until the strike is resolved.
As a matter of fact, kill your television forever. The iNternets Celebrities are the future of broadcasting, and you are all iNternets Celebrities in my book.
yo dallas we should called up the mothership and get the fuck outta here
^ Not yet omegaSB, soon, but not yet
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“the ‘Orange County’ DVD”
Ay Dallas, you talking about that Jack Black movie? That’s my joint right there. That fat white rocker is hip-hop, for real.
I’m with ya, Dallas. I hope to join the WGA within the next year so I’m ridin’ with them all day. I even did a blog about it last month.
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They for real rally’n against that shit. Thats wild! Wait til that cold bitter NY winter start bitin their asses. I’m all for a protest/cause – real talk.
As a dude who works freelance in the camera department for the movie industry, I have slighty different perspective than some because the writer’s are taking money out my pocket right now with their strike but yet again, fuck the corporations for not paying what they owe to the people who allow them to have an actual product. Solidarity!
I really loved how they called the internet “experimental”. Then a writer put it in perspective. His daughter told him a show he writes was the #1 seller on I-tunes and said he must have made a lot of money off that…”No Virgina there isn’t a Santa Claus”.
Hell people caking up off of Second Life and World of Warcraft and that’s just off of the players.
I gave up on TV a while back ago so I can’t really see how I could aid the cause. I do occasionally sneak in and catch the Boondocks though. A man has to have something.
keep fighting the good fight my dude…
I fully support the strikers in this cause. Ive never been terribly on tv anyways. And since the strike began, Ive done a lot more reading (and Im already a prolific reader) and actually enjoying life! Wish the rest of America would do the same.