BigThink.com is a new press-happy website where ideas of "great minds, leaders and cultural figures will be used to catalyze an online discussion about the big issues of our day among a global audience." It's also the place where New Yorker editor David Remnick made fun of a media blog, and David Patrick Columbia defended bloggers.
Today, the site is home to a new roundish table discussion video about the WGA strike — with actual writers discussing the matter.
We mean to emphasize this because most Internet videos featuring striking writers show them not speaking, and communicating through the written word on cue cards. Or pieces of cardboard and a Sharpie.
The segment has comedy writers Dan Goor, Laura Krafft and Colin Jost "[offering] a perspective of the strike from the picket line. They talk about what's behind the strike, what's at stake, as they see it, and why they're still deeply committed to the cause."
And in an asterisk-worthy note: "The writers requested that we not post their show affiliations."
Huh. That's curious. Writers on strike who don't want their show affiliations mentioned? Because talking about the strike more than Nikki Finke is somehow bad form? We're not buying.
Which is why we copy/pasted their names into IMDB to REVEAL ALL THEIR SECRETS!
Dan Goor: The Daily Show, Last Call With Carson Daly, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
Laura Krafft: The Colbert Report
Colin Jost: Saturday Night Live


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