Daily Buzz, People’s Revolution Edition

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December 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 – More on Viacom freelancers walkout, Carson Daly faces the music, and a guide to fine picketing.

Labor fever is sweeping the the NYC blogosphere, as even Viacom-owned VH1’s Best Week Ever blog runs down their favorite Viacom Freelancers Strike picket signs, and Gawker reports MTV had to hide their Times Square View from impressionable TRL audiences.

Also via Comrade Gawker , Fresh Direct just put out of work a group of employees with a vote to unionize less than two weeks away.

And fellow Nicke Denton-owned blog Defamer has posted a harrowing account of more than 20 WGA members infiltrating Carson Daly’s show taping, heckling him throughout an attempted interview.

COOL FACTOR: Picket Line Connoisseurs

Deadline Hollywood Daily shared a Zagat-style review of West Coast picketing spots, attributed to Jonathan Schmoc. Is there an NYC edition on the way? A highlight:

NBC BURBANK
Getting a school bus to honk has never seemed so “chic” as at the “legendary” Burbank “chez Leno.” “Enthusiastic die-hards” stand in “long lines” to “stand in a long line” as stories of “touching John Edwards” and “creepy Ambassador Hotel premonitions” make striking at NBC Burbank the West Coast answer to “yelling at any New York office building.”