In reality it won't mean a thing. For a short time the amount of new crap TV coming out of Hollywood will drop and we'll only have to deal with re-cycled crap for a while.
I'm sure India can provide us with cheaper crap TV so I see no reason to deal with the Union. I am hoping they break the union completely. In my opinion Unions are anti-American because they disrupt a market driven industry and create artificial influences which support low producers. Maybe the writers can now experience the real life of economics which most Americans have experienced over the past 20 years.
welcome to reality.
As a parting shot I do believe a talented writer should be able to get royalties from their work just as any other creative talent. I just don't believe it should be done for everyone. If a writer sucks they don't deserve anything at all let alone royalties.
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The AMPTP, for its part, says that it has for months been preparing for the possibility of a strike and that, while inconvenient, the television and movie seasons will go on. "When it comes to the audience, every movie studio and every television network has a contingency plan and the screens will not go dark," says Barbara Brogliatti, a spokesperson for the AMPTP. Movies have stepped up their production schedules and studios have stockpiled scripts in hopes of getting all critical work done. More worrisome are scripted television shows, which are filmed with shorter lead times--potentially bad news for millions of "Grey's Anatomy" or "Desperate Housewives" or "Lost" fans. Still, many of the top 10 television shows each week are unscripted reality-type programs whose writers (Yes, so-called reality shows have writers.) are not covered by the Guild. Television executives say that if an immediate strike is called, viewers will likely see more prime-time news programs, sports and already-released movies as early as next year. But according to Condon, the affects may be even sooner than that. "To say that a strike wouldn't affect the viewer seems like a bit of posturing to me," he says, adding his belief that after about six weeks, all of television-watching America will start to feel it.
Like many of his peers Mazin, the movie writer, doesn't like the prospect of putting off work. But it's not as bad, he says, as accepting the AMPTP's current terms. "It's like saying, 'No, I don't accept your offer to commit suicide'," he says. "But it's going to be a difficult formula to arrive at."
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