The Writers' Strike: Still in Reruns

Tantrum? Uh, no. The writers were striking because they weren't getting a fair shake. They were being denied what was rightfully theirs. If you create something and someone sells it, then you deserve a certain percentage. And they weren't getting what they deserved from new media. Fighting for that is not 'having a tantrum'. By the by, there have been WGA strikes before, to prompt getting what they were supposed to. Do a little research before you mouth off on things you don't know about.

I'm watching this from the UK. The Idea of a writer being able to strike is a new concept. We run a free market economy where if you don't like the job terms and pay you jump out find another booming indutry to milk. It just indicates the glory days of TV Film is at an end. Maybe it's a good thing. Let others countries who are more economic have a chance to make content. We have loads of really good cheap scrips you can have. Writers! stop having a tantrum, you are strangling your own buisness!!

I'm watching this from the UK. The Idea of a writer being able to strike is a new concept. We run a free market economy where if you don't like the job terms and pay you jump out find another booming indutry to milk. It just indicates the glory days of TV Film is at an end. Maybe it's a good thing. Let others countries who are more economic have a chance to make content. We have loads of really good cheap scrips you can have. Writers! stop having a tantrum, you are strangling your own buisness!!

I'm watching this from the UK. The Idea of a writer being able to strike is a new concept. We run a free market economy where if you don't like the job terms and pay you jump out find another booming indutry to milk. It just indicates the glory days of TV Film is at an end. Maybe it's a good thing. Let others countries who are more economic have a chance to make content. We have loads of really good cheap scrips you can have. Writers! stop having a tantrum, you are strangling your own buisness!!

i think this is bullcrap and childish. im in the marine corps and believe you me i put up with 10 times more dumb crap than they could imagine. our military goes to iraq and fights for their country and these writers that think they got it so bad get paid probly 10 times more than we could ever imagine. must be nice to sit in an office all day while were sitting in 120 degree weather sweatin balls for $700 every 2 weeks. lazy pieces of crap if u ask me.
By gutz

i think this is bullcrap and childish. im in the marine corps and believe you me i put up with 10 times more dumb crap than they could imagine. our military goes to iraq and fights for their country and these writers that think they got it so bad get paid probly 10 times more than we could ever imagine. must be nice to sit in an office all day while were sitting in 120 degree weather sweatin balls for $700 every 2 weeks. lazy pieces of crap if u ask me.
By gutz

Writers are the backbone of any movie scripts., Writer though he/she writes from their pens or their finger works but I assume each touch of dots cost them of their own brain blood..... The Writer's demand must be accepted immediately without any conditions.....Anamjem /Dubai
anamjem@hotmail.com

The strike won't break the union. They will settle at some point. Basically the Writers just want a cut of the revenue coming from online movie channels (which are becoming popular). The producers and writers never see a dime from me -- I never pay for movies I get free tickets and dvds from freemovieoffer.com

I'm hoping the strike breaks the union. With the crap that's been coming out of Hollywood I have little sympathy. Unions protect the weakest producers. Breaking the union allows the free market to control how things work. The load of crap coming from Hollywood under the category of "Entertainment" illustrates clearly there's a problem.
Get rid of the Unions and let the market forces dictate compensation. If you are a good writer you'll be compensated well. If you suck you'll need to find a new vocation. Welcome to the real world.

I think the writers strike should continue indefinately. We live in a market driven economy. With the literal crap that's been coming out of Hollywood the past several years I see no reason to support a union of writers. Our country is about free markets and supply vs. demand. On reason entertainment from Hollywood is so expensive is because unions interfere with the natural operation of the free market. I for one will be happy when the union is broken completely. Writers that perform should be well compensated. Those that don't perform well should look for other vocations. Without a union to strongarm the industry those that don't perform can finally be removed from the market. In the long run those that perform well will be able to demand higher compensation because the industry won't be paying deadwood to produce crap.

Hollywood needs a major re-work and hopefully this first step is successful to correct it's market.

LLong, you probably don't know much about the details of the WGA strike and you probably don't do too good when it comes to planning your own personal finances, either that or you are living just above the poverty line. Otherwise, why would it be so hard for you to believe that people who aren't "overpaid" could survive being on strike for 2 months? It's been sadly obvious to many of us here in LA that this strike was coming for the past 2 years -- that's right -- TWO YEARS. When you see that coming at you, if you have any sense at all, you do everything in your power to prepare for the coming RAINY DAY. That's what I started doing 2 years ago, for myself, my wife and our three children, and that is why I will be able to stay out on the picket line all the way until July 1st, when the Screen Actors' Guild's contract runs out and all the actors in Hollywood go out on strike to join us writers, at which point the AMPTP will finally find itself forced to come back to the negotiating table with at least a semi-reasonable offer on the issue of NEW MEDIA RESIDUALS, which is the only thing this strike has ever and will ever be about. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to have to stay out on strike that long, I want to go back to work yesterday, but if the other side continues to refuse to come back to the negotiating table, then I will just keep picketing and living frugally off the savings I desperately stashed away over the prior 2 years. It sucks -- but the only thing that would suck more is waving a white flag and accepting the incredibly unfair offer the companies gave us along with their ultimatum that led to them marching off and calling in highly-paid Washington, D.C. spin-doctors to put the blame on us by referring to our leaders as "radicals" out to service a (unspecified, left-wing) "political agenda." I took that one kind of personally, seeing as how I am a registered Republican and all.

In a world where the rich are getting richer while the rest suck rocks I think the only way any of us can get what we deserve is if some of the deserving start getting what they deserve first. Maybe you think writers don't deserve to get big pay but do the producers deserve to be half-billionaires? It isn't the money, it's the fair piece of the pie.

Anybody, who can afford to strike for two months or longer, was already getting overpaid before the strike.

LLong

Anybody, who can afford to strike for two months, was already getting overpaid before the strike.

LLong

The conglomerates are spending a ton of money on pathetic corporate spin rather than come back to settle. The AMPTP walked away from the table twice and won't come back. They are trying to rollback payments that are standardly paid to writers, and they will de-fund the health and pensions of the other unions with the same tricks they are pulling on the writers. Tell these billionaires to stop picking on the middle class!

The conglomerates are spending a ton of money on pathetic corporate spin rather than come back to settle. The AMPTP walked away from the table twice and won't come back. They are trying to rollback payments that are standardly paid to writers, and they will de-fund the health and pensions of the other unions with the same tricks they are pulling on the writers. Tell these billionaires to stop picking on the middle class!

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This sucks the most for the other people who have lost work (hairdressers, costume, set, etc.,) due to the strike. Who cares if the award shows don't get aired anyhow. Who wants to watch a bunch of people get awards for doing their job? Most of us do a good, even great job everyday and actually impact the world and don't need an award for it. Those shows are just ego trips and a bit pointless. Time for Hollywood to take a good look at themselves....they may be exaggerating their importance in the world. Overestimating their relevance. Yeah, I like TV and movies, but I've also enjoyed the extra time with my family and friends since I am not glued to the television anymore. Kind of a nice wake-up reminder to go live life.

This sucks the most for the other people who have lost work (hairdressers, costume, set, etc.,) due to the strike. Who cares if the award shows don't get aired anyhow. Who wants to watch a bunch of people get awards for doing their job? Most of us do a good, even great job everyday and actually impact the world and don't need an award for it. Those shows are just ego trips and a bit pointless. Time for Hollywood to take a good look at themselves....they may be exaggerating their importance in the world. Overestimating their relevance. Yeah, I like TV and movies, but I've also enjoyed the extra time with my family and friends since I am not glued to the television anymore. Kind of a nice wake-up reminder to go live life.

I don't watch much TV, but not having Stewart and Colbert's perspective on current events is really depressing. I don't see how anyone could disagree with the logic of "if they get paid, we get paid." Especially since "Let???s study the problem:" is ALWAYS a euphemism for "Let???s put off doing anything and hope this problem doesn't reach us."