Eavesdropping on Business-Speak, by John Stodder
Posted in Dolan Media, Economics, Labor, Law, Retail, Trends on Jan 7th, 2008
Let’s check in on some of the stories being told on the Dolan Media network at the turn of the year….
LIBizBlog, affiliated with the Long Island Business News, posts about a lunch-bucket economic indicator: Share prices of convenience food companies. A Deutsche Bank analyst says “weather issues and consumer pressures” will add up […]
Posted in Accounting, Internet, Labor, Marketing, Media on Jan 3rd, 2008
Actor and writer Eric Bogosian has an insightful take on why the AMPTP is taking such a hard line against the WGA that I’ve seen yet. He e-mailed his hypothesis to top entertainment industry reporter Nikke Finke, and it’s up on her blog.
Bogosian says, in essence, that entertainment producers are worried about how […]
Okay, yes, I’m being sarcastic, but you have to understand. All too often when I was a youngster, my father would come home from work to find my brothers and me lying on the floor, watching “The Three Stooges” or “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” whereupon he would ask in a sneering tone, “What intellectual, […]
After a relaxing holiday weekend, today is the day the Writers Guild of American and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers are supposed to resume negotiations.
Nikke Finke, the showbiz industry blogger who has led coverage of this story since before the strike began — tripling her page views to 1 million per day, […]
Posted in Internet, Labor, Media, Technology on Nov 13th, 2007
Legendary tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen explains that the Silicon Valley way of creating businesses might be what its polar opposite, the entertainment industry, might turn into as a result of the WGA strike; and of the underlying issue behind the strike, the convergence of scripted movie and TV entertainment with the Internet.
The whole, very long […]
The National Association of Manufacturers blogger Carter Wood thinks he knows why free trade has become a dirty word in the political world:
The rise of anti-trade sentiment is a complex one, but certainly electoral politics play a key role. Organized labor’s place in the economy has slipped dramatically as membership numbers fall (7.4 percent of […]
On the last day before the Writers Guild of America went on strike, two of the most powerful entertainment executives offered a deal through a back channel. If the WGA stopped demanding DVD residuals, the producers would improve the residual formula applied to Internet downloads of movies and TV shows, according to Nikke Finke’s […]
Posted in Internet, Labor, Media, Professional Services on Nov 6th, 2007
The Writers Guild of America’s spokespersons are “potentially hurting their cause by being so slow to explain their side to the media,” according to Daily Variety, the showbiz trade publication.
The writers are “in danger of getting swift-boated,” the unsigned essay states — alluding to 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry’s refusal to defend himself against […]
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