My Writer’s Guild cap = virtually worthless…
For most intensive purposes the Writer’s Guild strike has been a striking failure. The daily fake news shows and late night talk shows will be aired live again starting today before the striking writers have reached any agreements with the production studios.
This sucks on so many levels I can’t even begin to count them. Firstly, trade unions are reeling nationwide because their membership no longer cares about the next generation of tradesmen that will inherit these unions in the future.
Surely there was a lack of credible union leadership being expressed from the Writer’s Guild management but at the end of the day these tradesmen needed to take a stand for themselves and their rights. Evidently the wealth inside of the WGA membership has turned these men into mice.
I will continue to forge ahead with content and information created directly for the internets, but I am reminded that if I ever receive the opportunity to expand my platform it will be under the provisions outside of my control. The writers have ceded their intellectual property over to the studios for rebroadcast on any platform the studios choose.
Residuals have paid many mortgages to homes that people would otherwise not be able to afford and put many a kid through an expensive college that they probably didn’t deserve to go to either. I normally champion the cause that refutes privilege and dismantles the status quo. The only reason these writers deserved to win this fight was not because they are a noble courageous lot, which they are not, but because the studios already have more money than they know what to do with.
Maybe you actually need the mob involved for unions to work?
yea no one likes broken bones lol
This really sucks. We’ve all learned a valuable lesson haven’t we kids?
Unions=armed men in dark clothing that can be extremely persuasive during times of negotiation
Back to work, fellas!
Dammit!
One.
Like Jay Leno said, “I can’t have 19 people putting 160 people out of work.” I bet you those 19 are probably in the top 25 of highest paid employees for that show. Plus the demands the writers are making are irrelevant to these late night talk shows anyways.
How’s Kevin Eubanks supposed to buy weed if he’s outta work?
T-Bags, the writers are looking for residuals when the networks use the content the writers created on other platforms like the internets and wireless services. If NBC is making ad revenue from broadcasting these programs on the internets why aren’t the writers being compensated?
The writers are looking for residuals from DVD sales. Series like Lost and The Wire are doing wild numbers as far as DVD sales are concerned. You think that isn’t relevant?
Whether you are a writer or a viewer you should have a tighter grasp on the issues.
Jay Leno is a faggot. Not to say that faggots can’t have valid points to express but writers are the motherfucking engines. Everyone else eats after them. Strikes are rough and people need that guap but tomorrow when you see the networks caking.off your work you would feel a kind of way if you took a shitty contract.
The niggas that hold the boom mics can do that shit anywhere they want. They will find work if they need it. There are too many management apologists in the rank and file. White ppl of course. After Kennedy and King got shot white became mostly cowards. Blacks got twisted up too.
My point being that the issues that the writers have are real and factual. Do the knowledge and get back at me.
The studios are putting the infrastructure in place for those late night shows as well as prime time programs to be broadcast on other platforms.
The studios have said that the advertising monies garnered from these peripheral platforms will be minimal but the movie studios said the same shit about VHS products to the screenwriters.
The CBS News writers are without a contract as well and they should have struck already.
^^ Are you kidding me? Nearly ALL late night content is on the web. O’Brien cakes off that stuff — sometimes he puts it up online before it goes on air. And NBC gets ad revenue and eyeballs off of all of that. Kimmel and Leno too, and it’s not just what we see here. A ton gets repurposed outside of the US where new media distribution via internet and cell phones has almost completely replaced the television as we know it.
That being said, they punked the last go round by accepting the studio’s word that once they figured out how to make money off the DVD’s, they’d pay the writers. Right. It doesn’t take a genius to see through that line. But maybe that’s because the leadership at the WGA is corrupt to begin with > http://wgaestaffunion.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/on-leno-the-writers-guild-eastand-other-things-from-artfulwritercom/
Anywho, I give some credit to these folks for trying to correct the mistakes of the past now. Too bad though there isn’t enough courage to go all the way around the union.
Fantastic post Big D. You nailed it.
eff the sellouts and the big bosses.
watchin Bruce Lee films impressed on me one important life lesson: behind a organization of thuggish henchmen and street soldiers, there’s always a cold dude wearin a business suit with hidden ninja moves to whoop mad asses [||].
Jay Leno and his fat car collection (no CASH MONEY RECORDS… really, no comparison) can afford to lose some money in order to Do The Right Thing. Guess the BOTOX going into his chin gone straight to his brain though.
Solidarity forever. We’ll figure it out. We got to, for the babies.