{"id":1095,"date":"2005-11-17T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/11\/17\/writers-protest\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T19:57:00","slug":"writers-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/writers-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; while network entertainment executives discuss the future of television.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&laquo; Television&rsquo;s reality intruded upon network entertainment chiefs Tuesday when disgruntled reality show writers barged in to a gathering of industry leaders to seek more pay.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 TV writers want their benefits to catch up with scribes of comedies and dramas, and about a dozen of their representatives interrupted a discussion with the entertainment presidents of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN and the WB at the Waldorf Astoria.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not the most comfortable topic for television executives anyway, since acknowledging all of the writers indicates there&rsquo;s something less than real about reality TV.<\/p>\n<p>Another indication of changing times for TV came within the discussion itself. For about the first half of the annual gathering &#8211; traditionally an opportunity for television executives to take stock of the fall season &#8211; the talk was about business and technology, not about programming. &raquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/business\/ci_3220036\">LA Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on this protest at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wga.org\/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1424\">Writers Guild of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; while network entertainment executives discuss the future of television. &laquo; Television&rsquo;s reality intruded upon network entertainment chiefs Tuesday when disgruntled reality show writers barged in to a gathering of industry leaders to seek more pay. More than 1,000 TV writers want their benefits to catch up with scribes of comedies and dramas, and about&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/writers-protest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writers protest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}