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Jul 10

Help the writers (and directors), make the call!

As you may have heard from all the news outlets and from our previous post, the writing category of the Emmy awards will not be part of the primetime televised portion this year, but instead will be part of the creative Emmy. The I’m With Coco Facebook group and our friends over at NoFactZone.Net are organizing a movement that can help put the category back on the main Emmy telecast. If you would like to help (which we encourage you to do so), it’s very easy, all you have to do is make the call to the Emmy planning offices to get the writers and directors awards back on the air!

Here are some tips that our friends over at the Colbert camp and the facebook gang have graciously sent over:

CALL John Shaffner’s assistant, Marsha Alexander, at 818-754-2824, using the Talking Points below. Please be POLITE and RESPECTFUL – angry callers are not taken seriously. INTERNATIONAL FANS, please continue to send emails about this

THE CLOCK IS TICKING ON THEIR ABILITY TO REVERSE THE DECISION, SO THE SOONER YOU CALL, THE BETTER!

TALKING POINTS

- Your hands are not tied. The Emmys change their content and order every year. If you want to do this, you can make it happen.

- We want to see the writers and their hilarious “names video,” *especially* this year. And so do millions of other viewers!

- We are millions of passionate 18-34-year-old viewers, and you are about to drive us away. Do the right thing.

- As it stands, women and minority writers are marginalized in this year’s telecast. The lack of diversity on television offends and hurts our communities of viewers, who you are about to drive away. Do the right thing.

- The Emmys are a way to celebrate television on television, and the writers that are writing Jimmy Fallon’s material are the same people who write for Variety, Music or Comedy SERIES. So it’s okay to use comedy writers to make the award show more entertaining, then think it’s OK to NOT celebrate writers?

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