Coming to a PDF Near You: Adobe announced today that it is teaming with Yahoo to put text-based ads in PDF files. … The new and improved version of Apple’s iPhone will be able to download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced last night. … For Facebook, Nothing’s Set in Concrete: Responding to criticism from MoveOn, Facebook execs are looking into changes to the recently launched Beacon advertising tool.
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The Writers Guild of America has got it all wrong. The architect of its financial mistreatment in the entertainment industry isn’t the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. Nor is it that lousy DVD deal it agreed to 20 years ago, which gives writers, directors and actors a combined 20 cents for each DVD [...]
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Mediated contract negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood producers broke off last night setting the stage for a writers’ strike that could leave sitcoms without scripts, late-night shows without topical monologues and television viewers with an even more limited choice of broadcast dross than they have now (”America’s Next Top Model,” “Dancing [...]
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We have nothing to do, the writers aren’t here. So a guy’s gonna come in and shave me. Fifty-five minutes, ladies and gentlemen! Fifty-five minutes to go!”
–David Letterman wings it during the last writers’ strike in 1988.
Unscripted reality TV, box-office bombs, endless reruns–dreck. There’s plenty of it on television now and there will be even [...]
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