Check writers 21/12/2007
Don’t you just love it when the bourgeois bolshevik has to make a decision between lefty principles and cash? As they say, follow the money every time.
Particularly in the case of US TV talk hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert who have decided to cross the TV writers picket line in the new year.
As you’d expect, their plans are explained in Emmy-class blather:
In a joint statement, Stewart and Colbert said: “We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.”
I remember when unionists were mostly coalminers and labourers. Can someone explain in non-ideological terms the unionisation of the elite to me? I don’t get it. One thing I know, it does NOT lift wages/conditions. Rather it holds everyone down to the lowest common denominator. So why do our supposedly ‘smarter’ professions use it?
And yeah Slatts, I sussed that it was all about money around 1970, the time of the Woodstock craze, when I saved up my paperboy money and bought the ‘live triple album’, reading on the back how its faults were like ‘scratches in fine leather’. Fine leather? Did us working class kids sucked in by boomer marketers know what they were talking about? From Hollywood elites to Australian latte socialists, we’ve been had mate!
Merry Xmas.
Greetings,
Some words and phrases are warning flags. If you encounter them, you can be confident that what follows will be industrial strength gobbledygook.
The phenonomem first surfaced with the sea-borne Muslim invasion, when the phrase “leaky boats” became an essential part of every hand wringer’s vocabulary. Then came sensitivity, nurturing, welcoming, paradigm (shift), icon, nuance, troubled, wedge, hegemony, outcomes, synergy, resonate, win-win and issues.
Find two or more examples in the first para e.g., ” troubled icon” and you may as well quit right there.
You know, the more I read that joint statement, the more I think they’re taking the piss. But are Stewart and Colbert that clever? Certainly, the type that writes for left wing talk shows would stud their language with garbage like “ambivalence” and “nuance”. If it is a send-up, I dips me lid to the hosts.
Umm, don’t mean to be rude but the statement was meant to be funny. You obviously haven’t seen either show.
I think you’re all trying too hard to fight the good fight. Lighten up.