How do you feel about...

[ZombieHorde]

How do you feel about The Daily Show and The Colbert Report being back on air during the writers strike?

[fenriswolf]

1. anything that informs the public is good

even if it is half informed infotainmnet. (well informative entertainment, they never claimed to just deliver unbiased news)

[2rth2pwr]

2. Total hypocritical scabs. nt

[laconicsax]

3. Not sure...

are they using scab writers or crossing the picket line themselves? If so, totally against. If not, more indifferent.

[ZombieHorde]

4. Does anybody know if they are using scab writers? nt

[killbotfactory]

7. I don't think they are using writers at all

Many of the "sketches" go nowhere on the Daily Show, and they make it quite clear they are on the side of the writers.

Colbert has a history in improv comedy so it's not as obvious.

[MadBadger]

6. They are not using scab writers. There is no writing involved.

[ZombieHorde]

5. I found this...

From newsvine:

Stewart also bemoaned the fact that the SGA has refused to allow his & Colbert's writers to return even though Stewart's production company, Busboy Productions, has agreed to the writers' terms and asked them to return. Seeber's answer was that the SGA is likely choosing a few strategically placed shows to allow the writers to return to so that economic pressure will mount and eventually cause their opponents to cave in to their demands or at least to be the ones to invite a return to the bargaining table.

Here is the link:
http://isaacs.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/08/1211159-the-daily-show-and-the-colbert-report-return-all-on-their-own

[MadBadger]

8. Its bullshit that theyll make a deal with Weinstein and Letterman, but not Stewart

[ZombieHorde]

9. I think that you are right.

They were on the side of the writers before the strike, and they are now. They have agreed to the terms, writers need work. Something stinks.