Writer's strike: Who do you want to win?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, March 7, 2024 03:54
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Originally posted by CrevanReaver:
Frankly, the writers are really the ones being selfish. Right now, they are putting a lot of production crew members out of work. That's what's dumb about strikes in general; financially, they hurt many people that have nothing to do with the issue.
Just as I wrote...
Nonwriting staff members of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" became the latest casualties of the four-week Hollywood writers strike when they were laid off Friday, November 30, 2007.
NBC confirmed the layoffs at the show without providing further details.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071130/D8T887HG1.html
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I want the friggin thing to drag-on and on so the networks can fall..
and cave-in to great minds like joss/tim/drew/fury/dug/etc. to save us from this hell whole of what passes for entertainment the networks have forced on to
american people. - the ones who have minds
anyway!
most people not just kids don't care these days
about comic book folk. like myself, nevermind anything else ..
our time is never up Faith we pay for every thing. ___[Angel]
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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
That’s the nature of the business. If you want job security, you need to go into a field where you are always in high enough demand, such as medicine, but most of those kinds of jobs require a degree of commitment that many people would rather avoid, and that’s why they have high job security.
Spoken like someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
Scripts, good one at least, do not get written overnight. They require a great deal of work, usually done with no guarantee of payment. And few writers reach a level of success (by which I mean making enough to pay a mortgage) for many years. It takes a hell of a lot of commitment for someone to seek a creer in writing - a long shot job with long hours, little pay (except for a small percentage), and low recognition.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Quote:If we assume we can take what you claim with any degree of confidence, then it sounds to me like I do know exactly what I’m talking about then, doesn’t it? If you want job security, go into a field that has job security. If you decide to go into a field that any number of fans on FFF.net can do just well in their spare time, don’t expect me to shed any tears for you, because you suddenly discover the pays not reliable. That’s always going to be the nature of that kind of work. It’s the same reason why the kid who mows me lawn doesn’t make 80 grand a year - because any idiot with a lawn mower can do it.
Originally posted by Storymark:Quote:Spoken like someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
That’s the nature of the business. If you want job security, you need to go into a field where you are always in high enough demand, such as medicine, but most of those kinds of jobs require a degree of commitment that many people would rather avoid, and that’s why they have high job security.
Scripts, good one at least, do not get written overnight. They require a great deal of work, usually done with no guarantee of payment. And few writers reach a level of success (by which I mean making enough to pay a mortgage) for many years. It takes a hell of a lot of commitment for someone to seek a creer in writing - a long shot job with long hours, little pay (except for a small percentage), and low recognition.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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That's kind of an interesting angle, Finn. Seems to me people will pay what workers are willing to accept, regardless of the field we're talking about. In this case, the professional writers have decided they aren't going to accept what they're getting. If they truly are a dime a dozen, then I'm sure the studios will have no problem hiring out their work to scabs.
"The bachelor" spinoffs, here we come.
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Some strike...a lot of the "striking" writers are still getting paid. I guess they're getting a little nervous about their upcoming Lexus payments. I wonder if they're "sharing their wealth" with other writers who are not getting paid.
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I want the people to win
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Quote:I’m pretty sure that they would have no problem hiring out their work to scabs. How many people who write fanfic do you suppose wouldn’t be willing to take money for their work, most of which is as good as most of what I've seen on TV? Of course hiring out to scabs could mean ticking off other unions who might then strike on principle or it could mean alienating themselves from the community when the strike is over, but even still, I suspect that it’s only a matter of time before someone starts hiring out to scabs.
Originally posted by Righteous9:
That's kind of an interesting angle, Finn. Seems to me people will pay what workers are willing to accept, regardless of the field we're talking about. In this case, the professional writers have decided they aren't going to accept what they're getting. If they truly are a dime a dozen, then I'm sure the studios will have no problem hiring out their work to scabs.
Also if employers were always willing to pay what workers would accept, regardless of the work, then there wouldn’t be any reason for unions or strikes, would there?
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Hollywood gears up for another labor battle
https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2024/03/05/hollywood-iatse-contr
act-strike
Is Hollywood Sleepwalking Toward Strike Three?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-str
ikes-crew-people-better-deal-1235830684/
As insiders assure themselves that the industry is too wounded to let another shutdown happen, THR checks in with the crew people battered by last year’s walkout and potentially ready to do it again: "I’m telling you, these people are pissed."
How do you sound natural in the voice that you want to write in?
https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/69007/how-do-you-sound-nat
ural-in-the-voice-that-you-want-to-write-in
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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Hollywood gears up for another labor battle
https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2024/03/05/hollywood-iatse-contr
act-strike
Is Hollywood Sleepwalking Toward Strike Three?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-str
ikes-crew-people-better-deal-1235830684/
As insiders assure themselves that the industry is too wounded to let another shutdown happen, THR checks in with the crew people battered by last year’s walkout and potentially ready to do it again: "I’m telling you, these people are pissed."
How do you sound natural in the voice that you want to write in?
https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/69007/how-do-you-sound-nat
ural-in-the-voice-that-you-want-to-write-in
Bad move striking right now.
Do any of these people look at The-Numbers.com?
Maybe they should go to China and see if they can get better deals there. China currently has the Top 4 grossing movies worldwide in 2024.
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cu
mulative/released-in-2024
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