{"id":697,"date":"2007-12-07T01:02:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T09:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=697"},"modified":"2008-11-14T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T18:01:32","slug":"dems-sign-on-for-amptp-image-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Dems Sign On For AMPTP Image Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when you think the cynicism meter is off the scale, you read an article like this<\/a> in the Los Angeles Times:<\/p>\n

“Seeking to shore up its flagging public image, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has turned to veteran political advisors from both sides of the aisle to guide its public relations battle with Hollywood’s striking writers.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not particularly surprising that greedy producers want to mount a campaign to make themselves look more sympathetic to the public, but the guns they’ve hired should raise an eyebrow or two. Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane are veterans of Democratic political campaigns. Lehane has been seen recently slinging for Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

What I want to know is why have Democratic consultants signed on to serve as strike breakers? This seems a bit inconsistent with the mission of a party that represents itself as worker friendly. I can’t help but wonder what Clinton and their other clients would think of this new association. But if I were a Democrat running for office, I would look elsewhere for PR advisers. And I hope the writer’s kick their butts.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Lehane and Co. will pay for their betrayal. Their contracts with unions SEIU and ChangeToWin have been canceled. I don’t know what the producers are paying them, but it will have be a small fortune to make up for what they will lose on these contracts and those in the future from Democratic enterprises who will no longer do business with these strike breakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when you think the cynicism meter is off the scale, you read an article like this in the Los Angeles Times: “Seeking to shore up its flagging public image, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has turned to veteran political advisors from both sides of the aisle to guide its public relations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,1139,81],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-amptp","tag-labor","tag-wga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":703,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=703","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":0},"title":"AMPTP Gets Punked","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/11\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A website satirizing the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has been launched - no doubt by some enterprising and idle writers. 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