RiverKing
11-22-2007, 03:55 PM
This headline, "Writers Strike Could Cancel Dems' Debate", caught my funny bone.
A potential strike by CBS News writers imperils a debate among Democratic presidential contenders in California.
CBS News writers on Monday authorized their union leaders to call a national strike. About 500 of the network's television and radio news writers in New York, Los Angeles and other cities have been working under an expired contract since April 2005.
CBS News called the vote ''unfortunate'' and said its latest offer was ''fair and reasonable.''
''We are going forward with our plans for the debate and hope that the WGA, in the interests of the American public, will pull down the pickets for the period of the debate,'' it said in a statement.
(More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2007/november/1122_dems_debate.sht ml))
Even though they say it's because they won't cross picket lines, the headline immediately brought to mind a cartoon I saw recently (on GOPUSA?) of a bunch of writers walking a picket line with blank signs. It was then an easy step from that cartoon to imagining the Democrat candidates lined up on a stage behind podiums but with nothing to say because of the writers' strike.
Of course, some would ask "What would be different about that?". :devil:
A potential strike by CBS News writers imperils a debate among Democratic presidential contenders in California.
CBS News writers on Monday authorized their union leaders to call a national strike. About 500 of the network's television and radio news writers in New York, Los Angeles and other cities have been working under an expired contract since April 2005.
CBS News called the vote ''unfortunate'' and said its latest offer was ''fair and reasonable.''
''We are going forward with our plans for the debate and hope that the WGA, in the interests of the American public, will pull down the pickets for the period of the debate,'' it said in a statement.
(More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2007/november/1122_dems_debate.sht ml))
Even though they say it's because they won't cross picket lines, the headline immediately brought to mind a cartoon I saw recently (on GOPUSA?) of a bunch of writers walking a picket line with blank signs. It was then an easy step from that cartoon to imagining the Democrat candidates lined up on a stage behind podiums but with nothing to say because of the writers' strike.
Of course, some would ask "What would be different about that?". :devil: