More Strike Stuff

I should mention a few places on the Internet where one can find information about the WGA Strike. The two biggies are the websites of the Writers Guild of America West and the Writers Guild of America East. The info there is, of course, solid. Any hour now, they'll begin posting information on picketing and where to show up if you want to support the WGA position.

(Whoops! Just checked and the East already has such information available. Tomorrow, they'll be hiking around Rockefeller Center all day. Wish we had a great place like that to picket out here.)

I'm not entirely sure who's behind it but United Hollywood is a good, pro-WGA weblog full of useful and credible information. Go there often.

Moving a notch downwards on the reliability scale, the L.A. Times has set up a blog for strike news. You also have Nikki Finke over in the L.A. Weekly and she's been getting pretty accurate news and getting it before almost anyone else.

Then you have Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. The trade papers have an unfortunate tendency to be ultra-impressed by statements from studio heads. It's like the more powerful you are in the industry at the moment, the more credibility you have. Or maybe it has something to do with not pissing off powerful people, especially the kind who might someday hire you and/or who buy a lot of advertising.

For general opinion and discussion, the Huffington Post has this section. Pay special attention to anything written by Bob Elisberg or Howard Rodman. They know of what they write.

Lastly, in the spirit of fairness, here's a link to the website of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (i.e., "the other side"). Oddly enough, they link to a number of newspaper and magazine articles that cite statistics that would seem to be in conflict with their public posturings. I wonder why that is.