I think the point of the article is that if these people had made all of the
stuff they had on tape public before election day, perhaps some voters might
not have voted for him. But self preservation was more important than their
concern for the welfare of their country.
Miriam
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I wonder why all of the wild speculation? Donald Trump will be exactly what
Donald Trump has been from the first day that his face appeared in the news.
As president, he will not suddenly become elevated to some Higher Moral
Ground.
He will take the reigns of power and run the nation as close to the way he
has directed his vast personal Empire. He will lie when it serves his
purpose, cheat if it gains his desired results, and treat all Working Class
citizens as he treats his own employees.
And that will begin on January 20.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/25/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the end of their careers."
Dayen writes: "Many expected footage of Donald Trump's hundreds of
hours in 'The Apprentice' boardroom to yield something just as
incendiary. But outtakes from the show were never leaked. One of the
plausible reasons why this footage hasn't seen the light of day is
that, simply put, many of the employees with access to the footage feared
Apprentice"
Donald Trump. (photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty)
"The Apprentice" Employees Feared Professional Reprisal Over Trump
Leaks By David Dayen, The Intercept
24 December 16
After the infamous "grab her by the pussy" Access Hollywood tape,
many expected footage of Donald Trump's hundreds of hours in "The
boardroom to yield something just as incendiary. But outtakes from theterrified of being sued.
show were never leaked. One of the plausible reasons why this footage
hasn't seen the light of day is that, simply put, many of the
employees with access to the footage feared the end of their careers.
It's a concern that highlights the dangers of working in an industry
without job security or union representation.
On a Seattle radio show this week, comedian Tom Arnold claimed the
existence of an old edited video of Trump "saying every dirty,
offensive, racist thing ever." Explaining why "The Apprentice"
staffers who made the reel never tried to release it, Arnold said,
"They were scared to death. They were scared of (Trump's) people.
They're scared they'll never work again."
Similarly, a Vanity Fair article breaking down the yearlong effort by
the media and the Clinton campaign to obtain "Apprentice" tapes
claimed employees "feared reprisals, or simply worried that blowing a
whistle would prevent them from getting jobs on the sets of other
reality programs." One industry employee told the magazine, "They are all
. Most of these people are freelancers, and there is no one that isgrievances.
going to protect them."
Unscripted television blossomed in part as a union-busting device.
During and after the 1988 television writers' strike, networks
developed shows like Cops and Unsolved Mysteries to maintain
programming in the event of another walkout. These shows were cheaper
to produce because of the lack of union contracts (particularly
because they didn't have to pay out residuals after the fact).
The rise of reality TV arguably prevented a 2001 writers walkout, and
though a 2007 strike ended with the Writers Guild winning a decent
contract, they did not organize reality shows to boost their
bargaining power. This is beginning to change - editors on Burnett's
"Survivor" actually have a union contract - but the vast majority of
the industry remains nonunion. And nearly half of all programming on
broadcasting and cable is unscripted, moving Hollywood away from its
labor roots.
Those producers, editors, and writers who transform thousands of hours
of footage into something coherent, if not watchable, are typically
contract employees who move from job to job, none lasting more than a
few months (this makes union organizing extremely difficult).
Independent production companies create and sell the shows to the
networks, and their profits increase with how much they can exploit
their workers. Freelancers get no health care or pension benefits,
vacation or sick days, and often no overtime, amid hazardous field
conditions. Time sheet falsification and wage theft run rampant.
Perhaps most important, your future career depends on good working
relationships with production companies and supervisors. If Mark
Burnett threatens to prevent you from working again if you cross him,
that's a credible threat, since employees find their next jobs through
recommendations and repeat business. Even though staffers could have
leaked material anonymously, the risk of ending their careers loomed
larger, because nobody in the industry is looking out for the
individual worker, who competes with hundreds of others to land a gig.
Blackballing in such an environment is simple.
Unions can protect workers from blackballing threats by raising
They can ensure the fairness of contracts like confidentiality agreements.economy"
They can police industries on behalf of workers. Their absence pushes
all the power to producers like Burnett, which can collude on wages
and threaten workers to bring them to heel.
The lack of bargaining power for nonunion contract workers has become
a hallmark of the U.S. economy. New research from Harvard's Lawrence
Katz and Princeton's Alan Krueger finds that 94 percent of the 10
million jobs created in the Obama era were temporary, part-time, or "gig
positions. This hands tremendous power to employers to dictate termsterrified of being sued.
of employment, and to even break the law, without pushback. And
blackballing threats are perhaps the quintessential example.
Threats that "you'll never work in this town again" should not have
been an impediment to anonymous leaking of material on Trump that
someone may have considered in the public interest. The fact that it
was, that people didn't think their identities would remain hidden and
that their career would end, speaks to the climate of fear that grips
the unscripted TV industry. And it increasingly characterizes the U.S.
workforce, where the boss has disproportionate power and control.
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"The Apprentice" Employees Feared Professional Reprisal Over Trump
Leaks By David Dayen, The Intercept
24 December 16
fter the infamous "grab her by the pussy" Access Hollywood tape, many
expected footage of Donald Trump's hundreds of hours in "The Apprentice"
boardroom to yield something just as incendiary. But outtakes from the
show were never leaked. One of the plausible reasons why this footage
hasn't seen the light of day is that, simply put, many of the
employees with access to the footage feared the end of their careers.
It's a concern that highlights the dangers of working in an industry
without job security or union representation.
On a Seattle radio show this week, comedian Tom Arnold claimed the
existence of an old edited video of Trump "saying every dirty,
offensive, racist thing ever." Explaining why "The Apprentice"
staffers who made the reel never tried to release it, Arnold said,
"They were scared to death. They were scared of (Trump's) people.
They're scared they'll never work again."
Similarly, a Vanity Fair article breaking down the yearlong effort by
the media and the Clinton campaign to obtain "Apprentice" tapes
claimed employees "feared reprisals, or simply worried that blowing a
whistle would prevent them from getting jobs on the sets of other
reality programs." One industry employee told the magazine, "They are all
. Most of these people are freelancers, and there is no one that isgrievances.
going to protect them."
Unscripted television blossomed in part as a union-busting device.
During and after the 1988 television writers' strike, networks
developed shows like Cops and Unsolved Mysteries to maintain
programming in the event of another walkout. These shows were cheaper
to produce because of the lack of union contracts (particularly
because they didn't have to pay out residuals after the fact).
The rise of reality TV arguably prevented a 2001 writers walkout, and
though a 2007 strike ended with the Writers Guild winning a decent
contract, they did not organize reality shows to boost their
bargaining power. This is beginning to change - editors on Burnett's
"Survivor" actually have a union contract - but the vast majority of
the industry remains nonunion. And nearly half of all programming on
broadcasting and cable is unscripted, moving Hollywood away from its
labor roots.
Those producers, editors, and writers who transform thousands of hours
of footage into something coherent, if not watchable, are typically
contract employees who move from job to job, none lasting more than a
few months (this makes union organizing extremely difficult).
Independent production companies create and sell the shows to the
networks, and their profits increase with how much they can exploit
their workers. Freelancers get no health care or pension benefits,
vacation or sick days, and often no overtime, amid hazardous field
conditions. Time sheet falsification and wage theft run rampant.
Perhaps most important, your future career depends on good working
relationships with production companies and supervisors. If Mark
Burnett threatens to prevent you from working again if you cross him,
that's a credible threat, since employees find their next jobs through
recommendations and repeat business. Even though staffers could have
leaked material anonymously, the risk of ending their careers loomed
larger, because nobody in the industry is looking out for the
individual worker, who competes with hundreds of others to land a gig.
Blackballing in such an environment is simple.
Unions can protect workers from blackballing threats by raising
They can ensure the fairness of contracts like confidentiality agreements.economy"
They can police industries on behalf of workers. Their absence pushes
all the power to producers like Burnett, which can collude on wages
and threaten workers to bring them to heel.
The lack of bargaining power for nonunion contract workers has become
a hallmark of the U.S. economy. New research from Harvard's Lawrence
Katz and Princeton's Alan Krueger finds that 94 percent of the 10
million jobs created in the Obama era were temporary, part-time, or "gig
positions. This hands tremendous power to employers to dictate terms
of employment, and to even break the law, without pushback. And
blackballing threats are perhaps the quintessential example.
Threats that "you'll never work in this town again" should not have
been an impediment to anonymous leaking of material on Trump that
someone may have considered in the public interest. The fact that it
was, that people didn't think their identities would remain hidden and
that their career would end, speaks to the climate of fear that grips
the unscripted TV industry. And it increasingly characterizes the U.S.
workforce, where the boss has disproportionate power and control.
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