Los Angeles, CA. In a ten minute video news blog the Full Disclosure Network® presents leaders of the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG) membership who point to the real danger of the proposed contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). They say the conditions are very similar to why Anti-Trust laws were enacted by the Congress years ago. And, the question is asked why are those laws are not being applied to the Big Media that now controls the production of movies and television, while distributing the product and transmitting it over cable companies and the internet that they also control.
Featured in the video news blog are:
- Scott Wilson, Screen Actors Guild Membership Leader
- Alan Rosenberg, President, Screen Actors Guild
- Edward Asner, former President of the Screen Actors Guild
- Ted Turner, Founder of Cable News Network
- Leslie Dutton, Moderator
The divided SAG leaders describe themselves as threatened with extinction or they call themselves “Moderates” who are more compliant with the power that controls the industry.
Ed Asner. Unhesitatingly describes the “moderates” as “walking softly and carrying a little stick” when it comes to negotiations. While Scott Wilson, says that “the collective bargaining is all about the Internet where the Big Media has a stranglehold”.
This is the first in a series of Full Disclosure Network® programs covering the future of Hollywood facing Media Consolidation and globalization and will it survive?
Comments to date: 14. This is page 1 of 2.
Lizzy Welch West L.A.
Posted: 10:29 am [PST] on September 08 2009
We all need to band together to stop these conglomerations from running and ruining our lives. Get the FCC ti change their damn rules.
Lana OBrien Studio City CA 91604
Posted: 08:48 am [PST] on May 06 2009
I am a member of the Wild Bunch of Hollywood. I was going to join Sag but now with the strike- I am waiting. If the AMPTP,get passed,?
I am non-union & have vouchers to join. I would for sure and vote No!
If I was Sag Member
I am at present Non-Union
Jody Carter North Hollywood, CA
Posted: 06:53 am [PST] on May 02 2009
The whole situation is so overwhelming & discouraging that I hardly know how & where to begin. I am very appreciative of Full Disclosure's support of proponents of integrity and fairness in all areas, especially in & for the Screen Actors Guild, holding out for what is fair, just, and vital to supporting basic American values.
I also applaud Full Disclosure's concerted efforts to require fairness & justice in many additional areas from the legal system to the restoration of Public Access.
Mike Martin Knoxville Tn
Posted: 05:27 am [PST] on April 30 2009
I'm involved with public community radio so I've witnessed first hand the pressure media congloms and the government can put on the little guy. There's one thing I don't understand specific to the SAG issue. If the consolidation of big media is the enemy, then why don't the entertainment unions do the same? Consolidate, or at least form some sort of binding alliance that would allow them to bargain together for the collective good of all. It would seem directors, writers,actors,stagehands, technicians, radio announcers, TV hosts, ect., are all parts of the same loose machine. Information and entertainment are no longer mutually exclusive. They are being combined by the media congloms to gain viewer ship and make money, so why wouldn't the people that have the talent to deliver the message work together whenever possible? As long as they're divided they can be played against one another to the benefit of management.
david hillberg orange county
Posted: 11:28 am [PST] on April 27 2009
The government does not care in justice just dollars in their pocket look to the aviation industry
Laura Pasadena
Posted: 12:49 pm [PST] on April 26 2009
Bad, bad, bad. It's a BAD contract!!!!
Geejad Hollywood
Posted: 11:35 am [PST] on April 25 2009
The Screen Actors Guild is run primarily by one or two staff members who have been there in different capacities for several decades. The only thing that has changed are their titles and increased salaries. Others are figure heads. The current negotiators appear to be complicit in the overall strategy to create a unified and global organization that will enable the industry to become the Walmart of media and the actors the employees. No voice, no real representation or power. Each time a new Board is elected the process begins over again. There will be no REAL change until the original senior staff leaders allow a changing of the guard. David White is just the new puppet master. Most actors seem to just want to work at any cost. Hopefully,dissenting voices will be heard , this issue is one that is now facing many workers in our country. It is extremely complex. Who is really running the show and how does all of this impact upon pension and health benefits for actors?
s barr burbank ca
Posted: 11:46 am [PST] on April 24 2009
Great Coverage!
Dan Kelpine Los Angeles
Posted: 08:52 pm [PST] on April 23 2009
This Contract is Bad! It is as simple as that. The Contract should be from dollar one. They don't make anything, we don't make anything. They make something from our talents then we should get compensated. It's a Win WIn situation for all parties envolved. The AMPTP has had the Power to end all of this on any day of their chosing, ever since day one of the negotiations
J. Perez Los Angeles
Posted: 05:12 pm [PST] on April 23 2009
Remember the antitrust judgment against Microsoft? These media/entertainment industry conglomerates are several times more guilty of the same monopolistic business practices. The only difference is that the latter are very powerful and influential and have been "getting away with murder" for the longest time now. It about time to end their greedy ways.