It’s an interesting and careful analysis by Dee Baker on his Digital Meteor blog. Here’s a snippet:
I respect other views on this, and I do believe both sides are sincere in their motivation, but there are those among the “no” voters who over-dramatize this contract as the biggest threat to the future of professional performers. [...]
Better late than never, we suppose. The Wrap has noticed there are some new videos out regarding the TV-Theatrical balloting.
We refer to the self promoting queen of Hollywood bloggers, whose stinky writing has regularly been debunked here. Well, we were looking back at her coverage of the election victory Unite For Strength put together last August, an event that dramatically changed the course of SAG, with an eye towards seeing how accurate the look-at-me [...]
Hulu has announced the formation of “Hulu Labs” which plans to distribute its own browser-style app to, what else, watch Hulu product on a large monitor attached to a computer. The announcement fueled the conspiracy theories of Membership First candidates who see it as “proof” that there really is money in new media – otherwise, [...]
No suprise, really, especially since most of the posts were uncontested. But we hear that all candidates endorsed by the AftraNOWÂ slate were elected to positions as officers and on the New York Local board. Full vote totals are expected Monday.
Results of AFTRA’s more highly contested election, in the Los Angeles Local, should be out in [...]
A long time ago, in our pre-blog days, we looked at NBC’s announced move to strip Jay Leno at 10 PM as a big problem for actors – and SAG in particular. Back then SAG had a strong presence in primetime, and the loss of five potential hours of scripted dramatic was obviously not good.
Now, [...]
