Even though Tomlin wasn't eligible to be nominated for a WGA due to his work as a head writer, he had input on the material. At this time, the WGA doesn't care as long as the person doesn't put themselves on the ballot. That's an issue Ron should take up with the WGA if he thinks it is such a big deal, as a rule change would be in order.

And it wouldnt work. The WGA already has policy for fi-core writers. They not gonna fault a whole show cause one of their writers is FiCore. RC is acting a toddler going thru the terrible twos.

All I tend to see is sour grapes, so I don't have the patience to look further the way others can.

No, that's all it is. He's bitching because Tomlin is fi-core and a "scab" and it's Tomlin's team. We can nuance the details but that's all of it. He knows better and he knows Gary Tomlin.

Even though Tomlin wasn't eligible to be nominated for a WGA due to his work as a head writer, he had input on the material. At this time, the WGA doesn't care as long as the person doesn't put themselves on the ballot. That's an issue Ron should take up with the WGA if he thinks it is such a big deal, as a rule change would be in order.

His first rule change request would be to retitle the show "Ron Carlivati's General Hospital, starring Roger Howarth."

I would assume RC's new contract at ABC has cycles where he can be fired. I dont get how he feels he can go on twitter and talk about his business like that. He is speaking for GH now. Even though I doubt ABC & Disney support his statement.

Does he think he's Teflon?

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He'd have to do something totally insane and very public to be fired. None of this qualifies and I doubt anything ever would.

He'd have to do something totally insane and very public to be fired. None of this qualifies and I doubt anything ever would.

I love this TV & film business but that right there is twisted cause If this occured in most other industries, the worker would be fired

He's not gonna be fired, John.

The other tacky thing is that so much of the current DAYS writing team, IIRC, is made up of people from Ron and Frank's old team at OLTL. Who were there til 2012.

He's not gonna be fired, John.

The other tacky thing is that so much of the current DAYS writing team, IIRC, is made up of people from Ron and Frank's old team at OLTL. Who were there til 2012.

Right.

By watching Days this past year and half Ive noticed at of the Days writers who were at OLTL are really good. Makes me wonder if They were more of the magic of what I liked in Llanview and RC just got the cred.

RC just seems so overrated now that I see the [!@#$%^&*] he does on GH

Ha Ron blocked me on twitter because I wrote:

@carlivatiron Fi-core writers did not receieve awards, rest of team did. @nbcdays had great 2013. Show support not bitterness. #DaytimeLives

I think people are being blinded by dislike for Ron here. I get his frustration.

How can DAYS win an award for best writing by a union member when a non-union member wrote the material? His material is winning, whether he gets the award or not.

If I had gone on strike and not received pay for 3 months and then a writer who said, "Screw the union, I want my money" and benefitted from the strike anyway won an award, I'd be pissed too.

My opinions on Ron, Gary, DAYS, and GH notwithstanding, I get it.

Juppiter the whole team wins the award not just the HW. Any Fi-core member of a writing team can not be nominated. So they are not being recoginized for their contributions. However RC seems to have tude that the HW does it all and that is so not the case

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I think people are being blinded by dislike for Ron here. I get his frustration.

How can DAYS win an award for best writing by a union member when a non-union member wrote the material? His material is winning, whether he gets the award or not.

If I had gone on strike and not received pay for 3 months and then a writer who said, "Screw the union, I want my money" and benefitted from the strike anyway won an award, I'd be pissed too.

My opinions on Ron, Gary, DAYS, and GH notwithstanding, I get it.

Gary Tomlin didn't write all of the material. DAYS has a very diverse writing team. I guess since GH is written by, for the most part, hacks, Ron doesn't get that.

I think people are being blinded by dislike for Ron here. I get his frustration.

How can DAYS win an award for best writing by a union member when a non-union member wrote the material? His material is winning, whether he gets the award or not.

If I had gone on strike and not received pay for 3 months and then a writer who said, "Screw the union, I want my money" and benefitted from the strike anyway won an award, I'd be pissed too.

My opinions on Ron, Gary, DAYS, and GH notwithstanding, I get it.

I think everyone gets what he's saying, but ultimately the only show without a scab writer (based on the 2013 eligibility period) was GH. Both DAYS and Y&R were nominated and had scab HW's during 2013. Meanwhile B&B, which also had a scab writer on staff, chose not to nominate itself. So, Ron's statement would have been the same had it been Y&R and not DAYS, or even if B&B chose to nominate itself.

I also see Ron's point. If it were just script writers, that would be one thing. But the head writer is something else altogether.

He's mad because GH didn't win, plain and simple. He don't give a damn about these FiCore writers, he's just mad people didn;t think his script was the best. If he could change it so those shows couldn't be nominated and GH automatically won each year, I'm sure he'd love that.

Bottom line!

Sometimes, I think FrankenRon are lazy, but moRon's tweets just prove that they are totally inept. They believe that they are delivering the goods. That tweet was foul, but I don't expect less.

I also see Ron's point. If it were just script writers, that would be one thing. But the head writer is something else altogether.

But the HW is getting nothing out of this. I don't see why the rest of the team shouldn't be awarded just because they work under him