After beforehand issuing a warning shot to Boston University, the Writers Guild of America has confirmed that hanging union members will picket at BU’s graduation when the top of Warner Bros. Discovery takes the stage.
BU just lately introduced that Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav can be this month’s graduation speaker amid the Hollywood writers’ strike.
The college has been in scorching water because the announcement final week, and the Writers Guild of America has blasted the choice and warned of picketers at Nickerson Field later this month.
On Thursday, the union confirmed that members will picket the ceremony.
“The Writers Guild of America will picket Warner Bros. Discovery President & CEO David Zaslav at Boston University’s All-Student Commencement Exercises at Nickerson Field on Sunday, May 21, 2023, beginning at 12:00 p.m. EDT,” the Writers Guild of America, East, mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
Zaslav, a BU Law alum from 1985, is amongst eight Hollywood CEOs pictured on a viral listing who collectively made greater than $773 million in 2021, in line with the writers’ guild. Zaslav took house $246 million that 12 months, the guild posted on-line.
Zaslav was requested in regards to the writers’ strike throughout a TV look final week.
“Everybody deserves to be paid fairly,” Zaslav mentioned on CNBC. “So our number one focus is let’s try and get this resolved. Let’s do it in a way that the writers feel that they’re valued, which they are, and they’re compensated fairly, and then off we go. Let’s tell great stories together.”
Last Thursday morning, BU tweeted about Zaslav within the graduation announcement, “He oversaw the launch of some of the fastest-growing networks in the US and the rise of popular channels, such as Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network, & TLC.”
The college has not responded to a number of requests for remark in regards to the criticism of the speaker choose.
Meanwhile, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos this week mentioned he won’t attend the PEN America Gala in Manhattan, citing the writers’ strike. The Netflix CEO was going to simply accept a Business Visionary Award on the occasion.
“Given the threat to disrupt this wonderful evening, I thought it was best to pull out so as not to distract from the important work that PEN America does for writers and journalists, as well as the celebration of my friend and personal hero Lorne Michaels,” Sarandos mentioned in a press release. “I hope the evening is a great success.”
Herald wire companies had been used on this report.
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