This Blog Is Full Of Crap

Apparently, celebrity gossip and television bloggers are saying that they are going to go silent in solidarity with the WGA.

Although the Writers Guild of America 's pre-strike media campaign was criticized as sluggish, the guild's headline-grabbing series of protests last week have managed to attract the sympathy of some viewers.

Seventeen entertainment blogs--among them Televisionary, Give Me My Remote and The TVAddict--will go dark Tuesday, replacing their sites with WGA solidarity statements.

Bullshit. They're just running out of material to write about, so they're just trying to spin this for attention.

If it were the directors striking, they'd do the same.
If it were the actors striking, they'd do the same.
If it were the fluffers, striking, they'd do the same.

Anything for attention when the material is running out.

They'll probably do this a few more times in order to make their remaining material stretch out, or until celebrities waving around picket signs and giving token gifts to the writers they depend on to put words in their mouths start saying incredibly stupid things on their own.

How long is it until Iowa? Celebrities are going to be fighting each other to see who stick their feet in their mouths, mistaking makeup and good lighting for relevance and political understanding.

If the strike grinds on, the gossip-rags will get lots of superficial garbage to put in the hopper once the campaign wagons begin rolling.

Feh.