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Celebrity Support

This image conveys the support of actors for the WGA strike. It seems that most celebrities feel the writer's are entitled to higher pay. Shown in this picture is America Ferrara, holding a sign that depicts her involvement in the protest. Viewers are only shown the need for change on behalf of the workers and would be inclined to join the cause. The strike is shown as positive.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/11/05/arts/20071105_STRIKE_SLIDESHOW_2.html

Writers on Strike

This image depicts the enthusiasm of the strikers.

Immediately, the eye is drawn to the man in the center of the picture. He looks as though he is yelling his support for the strike - running about energetically and calling out motivational words to his fellow strikers. He looks as though he is ready to try and persuade others to join the strike - and, from his energy, it looks as though he would succeed.

This image is in support of the strike. It shows that the strikers are still true to their cause. Their desire to attain their goals isn't waning in the least; the opposite, in fact. It is as though the viewer of the image could feel their energy, and be inclined to think positively of the cause.

(http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/11/05/arts/20071105_STRIKE_SLIDESHOW_8.html)

Both Sides in Writers’ Strike See New-Media Future at Stake

This is a powerful image that portays the writer's strike. The photographer took this image from a bird's eye view, the face of the writer is not visible, but the picket sign resting over her shoulder is clearly visible. The inteded affect of this is that the audiance's eyes are quickly drawn to the sign. Often time, we never know the faces behind famous sitcoms, talkshows, or movies, and this image is no different. We can not see the writer's face, but we can clearly see her cause. She is walking over the Hollywood walk of fame (which evidently smells of urine), and this has an ironic affect on the viewer. This strungling writer is walking across the names of stars which could have very well been imortalized by members of the WGA. The audience could not help but feel sympathetic.

Writer's strike dulls Golden Globes

Cassie Belek

Issue date: 1/16/08 Section: Scene

The only good that came out of the absence of a red carpet before Sunday night's announcement of the winners of the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards was that audiences were spared a barrage of crude and stale jokes from comedian Joan Rivers. With the exception of that one blessing, the evening was a bizarre disappointment to everyone but the winners, who didn't even have a stage to accept their award and bask in the glory.

A strike-induced cloud hung over the speedy 32-minute press conference announcing this year's winners in film and television categories, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The Globes' typical evening of alcohol-laced celebration was truncated to simple announcements of the winners by an array of entertainment show anchors, who attempted to make witty remarks throughout the press conference. This begged the question of which is worse: Mary Hart's failure to deliver an impromptu joke or the scripted banter that we are usually subjected to at the Golden Globes?

The Golden Globes award ceremony became another casualty of the writers' strike when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) refused to grant the award show a waiver to allow writers to script the show. The WGA threatened to picket the event if NBC, Dick Clark Productions and the HFPA made the decision to go on with the ceremony as usual, and the Screen Actors Guild boycotted in solidarity. The HFPA then opened the event to all media. The end result was a writer - and star-less press conference broadcast on the TV Guide Channel and CNN. NBC chose to broadcast a two-hour Golden Globes "Dateline" special hosted by Matt Lauer followed by a one-hour special telecast announcing the winners, hosted by "Access Hollywood"'s Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell.

The writer shows how the WGA is needed to run the Golden Globes. Though she mocks the staged conversations between the actors and hosts "spared a barrage of crude and stale jokes from comedian Joan Rivers" she points out how uneventful the Globes are without the scripts.
"The evening was a bizarre disappointment to everyone but the winners" this statement summarizes the general opinion of the audience due to the lack of the usual glitz and glamour."Entertainment show anchors, who attempted to make witty remarks throughout the press conference" there were attempts made to salvage the show by the anchors but the writing was apperently crucial to the event.

http://media.www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/storage/paper660/news/2008/01/16/Scene/Writers.Strike.Dulls.Golden.Globes-3153706.shtml

WGA, SAG, DGA Strike Over New Media Could Cripple Hollywood

This photograph shows how the hollywood sign is getting destroyed by the media. It means that because of the media-strike, Hollywood is going to get destroyed ! A monster looms over the Hollywood sign, and it could do more damage to Tinseltown than any rubber-suit lizard or CGI nightmare. It's the dreaded megastrike -- a work stoppage next summer that could cripple the entertainment industry if three major unions join forces and picket at the same time for a piece of the "new media pie."The Writers Guild of America, West (or WGA), the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild of America each want to tap the new revenue streams. If they decide on a simultaneous strike, the entire entertainment industry -- movies, TV, videogame shoots, online productions, etc. -- grinds to a halt. Careers and companies could be ruined. In talks underway between producers and the WGA, the guild is looking to seal a new three-year deal were supposed to be before Oct. 31. The current contract was put in place in 2001, narrowly averting what would have been the first WGA strike since 1988, when a 22-day walkout cost Hollywood an estimated $500 million. The two sides waited until the zero hour in 2001 to settle their dispute, finding middle ground in a last-minute deal that upped writers' pay for cable and DVD outlets. At the time, speculators said the guild settled because its rank-and-file membership was reluctant to vote for a strike.

Directors Reach Deal With Studios

"Directors Reach Deal With Studios"

This article headline comes from the Washington post. The article has a photo next to it that shows television writers outside Warner Brothers Studios on Monday January fourteenth in Burbank California. In the photo it shows writers protesting, still filled with fatigue, and anger. Although today on January 18th directors created a contract deal, which settled their 2 month walk out that harmed the entertainment industry. The executives said they hoped the agreement would signal the end of an "extremely difficult period for our industry."
In my opinion the photographer chose this picture for this article because he wanted to tell imply to us that although the strike for the directors is over, for the writers it is still not completed. The thing that attracts the attention of the reader most is the zoomed in sign that takes up half the picture. The photograph shows that the strike is not over and it is compromised mostly based on the signs that people are holding up rather then the facial expressions of the actual people themselves. The people hold up the signs in hope to come up with a resolution.