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CBS News Writers to Vote on Strike (Thursday)
The Associated Press ^ | 11/12/07 | JEREMY HERRON

Posted on 11/12/2007 7:22:25 PM PST by LdSentinal

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1 posted on 11/12/2007 7:22:28 PM PST by LdSentinal
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and the down side to this is??????.......


2 posted on 11/12/2007 7:23:56 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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CBS news writers might go on strike? Do you mean that the news writers write fictional story lines just as their sitcom writing colleagues do????

Is Katie Couric unable to function without someone having written her a script?


3 posted on 11/12/2007 7:24:19 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Is it still a strike if no one is watching?


4 posted on 11/12/2007 7:25:05 PM PST by kittymyrib
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Good, less fake news the better.


5 posted on 11/12/2007 7:25:10 PM PST by BGHater (Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
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Why am I not upset?


6 posted on 11/12/2007 7:25:36 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! Duncan Hunter is a Cosponsor.)
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Go for it! Union! Union! Union!

The Onion has more reliable news than CBS

7 posted on 11/12/2007 7:26:03 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
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Gee, the news people might have to go on camera without a script. Good question, what is the downside?


8 posted on 11/12/2007 7:26:11 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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CBS made what they said was their “final offer” and the writers threatened to strike. Problem: neither side believes the other, and neither does anyone else.


9 posted on 11/12/2007 7:26:33 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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If it weren’t for these news stories I’d never know there was a strike.


10 posted on 11/12/2007 7:27:06 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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Pre written news stories:
The war is lost....
It's Bush's fault....
___ died in Iraq today....
Brittney drinking and driving again...
11 posted on 11/12/2007 7:27:08 PM PST by chemicalman (I didn't jump on the bandwagon. It snagged and dragged me for a few miles.)
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They’re striking in professional sympathy with Hollywood’s striking fictions writers.

‘nuff said.


12 posted on 11/12/2007 7:28:14 PM PST by BCrago66
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CBS has a news department? That’s news to me...I thought they were an arm of the Clinton Broadcast Station.


13 posted on 11/12/2007 7:29:29 PM PST by Bobbisox (ALL AMERICAN "LAZY " GRANDMA FREEPER, and a LOYAL and DEDICATED FredHEAD!)
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The Liars Club has a union....

Who knew???


14 posted on 11/12/2007 7:30:06 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly.)
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SeeBS has writers? I thought they employed stable tenders.
15 posted on 11/12/2007 7:30:46 PM PST by Navy Patriot (The hyphen American with the loudest whine gets the grease.)
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and the down side to this is??????

My thoughts exactly. Who knew CBS employed 'writers' like the kind you find in sitcoms and movies, to do the propaganda, er nightly news.

16 posted on 11/12/2007 7:32:39 PM PST by Tarpon
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"CBS News is prepared for the possibility of a writers strike. We will continue to produce quality news programming for our viewers," CBS said in a statement.

Continue?! How can they continue producing something they never produced in the first place?!

If this CBS writers' strike actually happens, it will be fascinating to see if the scab writers can't do a much better job than the old CBS writing hacks. They could scarely do worse.

17 posted on 11/12/2007 7:33:59 PM PST by xJones
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Considering how the unionized work force at the Eye has done lately...scabs would be a step up, as far as I’m concerned.


18 posted on 11/12/2007 7:34:14 PM PST by RichInOC (Dan Rather: Who SAYS Ted Baxter Was A Fictional Character?)
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Gee, never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d ever consider myself pro-union....


19 posted on 11/12/2007 7:34:17 PM PST by awelliott
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"...About 500 unionized news writers could soon join their creative colleagues on the picket line..."


20 posted on 11/12/2007 7:35:25 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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