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Letterman To Return Next Week
The WGA and David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants have reached an agreement that will allow “Late Show with David Letterman” and “Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson” to return to the air next week with their writers.
WGA issued a statement Friday confirming the agreement, citing the deal as proof that its demands aren’t unreasonable.
“This is a comprehensive agreement that addresses the issues important to writers, particularly new media,” the Guild said. “Worldwide Pants has accepted the very same proposals that the Guild was prepared to present to the media conglomerates when they walked out of negotiations on December 7.
Today’s agreement dramatically illustrates that the Writers Guild wants to put people back to work, and that when a company comes to the table prepared to negotiate seriously a fair and reasonable deal can be reached quickly.”
WGA’s decision to strike a deal with Letterman is unique, because Letterman owns his own shows and is not at the mercy of the big studios. However, similar deals with the large studios are unlikely because they have considerably more at stake than Letterman’s World Wide Pants does.
I have mixed emotions about this WGA strike. I can appreciate what the writers are asking for and I can’t say that it’s unreasonable. There’s just something about strikes of any kind that I find irritating. Maybe it’s not so much the strike itself, but just the gratuitous picketing that I find so irritating.
What’s wrong with having a strike and just staying home or going on vacation? Is is really necessary to stand in the street with a dumb sign and a megaphone? The fact that all the late night shows went off the air made a pretty significant statement by itself without the stupid picketing.
Of course I could be wrong, so if I’m missing something and this whole picketing thing is necessary than please do tell.
-Chris Jones
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