OK, not really, but when am I ever going to get the chance to use that headline again? This is me taking a picture of someone else taking a picture of the Insider host doing a stand-up at this morning’s WGA picket in Rockefeller Center this morning. The ratio of cameras, professional and amateur, to [...]

The striking (sorry) Tina Fey pickets the site of her fictional show and her real employer. The TV and movie screenwriters’ strike is, of course, about significant issues: the value of labor in the digital age, the shifting paradigms of entertainment, the importance of Hollywood in the national discourse. But let’s not lose sight of [...]

Conan O’Brien and the Red Sox’s David Ortiz, both of whom have some spare time on their hands now. NBC Photo: Meghan Sinclair Even as this post goes up, TV writers should be beginning to picket Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, within convenient walking distance of a zillion TV-news camera crews. As I’ve mentioned before, it [...]