Warner CEO booed at Boston University as supporters of writers' strike picket outside

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By STEVEN SENNE today

BOSTON (AP) — Scores of Boston University students turned their backs on the head of one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, and some shouted “pay your writers,” as he gave the school’s commencement address Sunday in a stadium where protesters supporting the Hollywood writers’ strike picketed outside.

About 100 protesters chanted “No wages, no pages,” waved signs and were accompanied by an inflatable rat outside Nickerson Field as David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, gave his address inside the stadium. Thousands of graduating students, family members and educators attending the graduation ceremony had to walk by the protesters to enter the stadium.

Above the stadium, a small plane flew a banner that read, “David Zaslav — pay your writers.”

Kim Caramele, a writer and producer from North Stonington, Connecticut, said she hoped the protesters’ presence at the graduation ceremony helped give students a different perspective on what they should value in life.




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[jimfields33]

1. I think they need to get rid of guest speakers and have the president of the school give the speech

Even if they have a point which they do, it just disrupts the ceremony for everyone. Who can remember their guest speaker anyway. I graduated Florida state in 1991 and can’t remember who spoke or what they spoke.