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[oselle]

liptonrm's post just reminded me to pimp this website http://fans4writers.com/.

It was started up by a group of Joss Whedon fans in order to support the writer's strike, and other fandoms have gotten on board. Plenty of strike information, message boards for different shows and even PDFs for picket signs (if you're in LA or NYC and are thinking of supporting the writers in person). You can also download icons in support of the strike (and your favorite show). Hope liptonrm doesn't mind me copping a SPN icon along with her. The more the merrier, I hope!

Also check out their "Pencils2MediaMoguls" campaign (http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/pencils2mediamoguls.html). Might be fun to bomb Les Moonves with pencils in support of Supernatural! (Can we ask him to get rid of Bela while we're at it?)

I think these media companies don't know what hit them. They were expecting fans to be pissed at the writers...not at them. I love this frigging internet. What a series of tubes!!

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[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Thanks for these links! I'm going to miss my shows when while they're on extended hiatus, but the writers are being screwed. There's a great video here where a writer for The Daily Show points out that the very same Viacom media mogul who's been claiming Viacom has NO IDEA whether internet content will have any value has also sued YouTube for a BILLION dollars for using its content on line. Erm, obviously Viacom thinks its internet content is worth something! Viacom has also told its investors that its internet content will bring in 500 million in revenues this year alone. Amount they are proposing to give the people who wrote the content: zero. Zip. Nada. Assholes.

(Sorry for all the edits -- I can't spell in the morning.)

[oselle.livejournal.com]

The writers are the backbone of the entertainment industry and yet they're the ones who always seem to get screwed. I sincerely believe that these corporate heads think that writing is little more than a bunch of monkeys at typewriters.