get back to work, monkeys
Nov. 7th, 2007 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerAccording to CNN.com's unfortunately-worded poll "Do You Feel Sorry for the Writers?" regarding the ongoing strike, 53 % (3,921) said "No."
Soooo... um... can someone please explain this seeming overwhelming lack of sympathy for the writers? Are people just pissed because their shows are in reruns, or do they think the writers are greedy, lazy, and overpaid?
Seriously. I honestly don't understand, what's going on here?
I have not yet heard a single intelligent rebuttal to elegant pro-strike arguments from the likes of Mark Evanier and Brian K. Vaughan (a writer on LOST and of several excellent comics). Someone explain to me how they're in the wrong, here. Because it seemed to me that Hollywood's worst-kept-secret was how writers were constantly being shat upon.
For God's sake, they already gave up one of their previous demands to earn eight fucking cents per DVD sold of their own work (as opposed to the four they get now), in a desperate bid to avoid the strike. Can one argue that it's fair how they're getting nothing from New Media versions of their work, when clearly, someone else is profiting from said work?
I'm genuinely curious. I don't claim to know the ins and outs of commerce or the industry. But so far, I've seen nothing to dispute what the WGA is trying to achieve. How are they in the wrong, here?
Soooo... um... can someone please explain this seeming overwhelming lack of sympathy for the writers? Are people just pissed because their shows are in reruns, or do they think the writers are greedy, lazy, and overpaid?
Seriously. I honestly don't understand, what's going on here?
I have not yet heard a single intelligent rebuttal to elegant pro-strike arguments from the likes of Mark Evanier and Brian K. Vaughan (a writer on LOST and of several excellent comics). Someone explain to me how they're in the wrong, here. Because it seemed to me that Hollywood's worst-kept-secret was how writers were constantly being shat upon.
For God's sake, they already gave up one of their previous demands to earn eight fucking cents per DVD sold of their own work (as opposed to the four they get now), in a desperate bid to avoid the strike. Can one argue that it's fair how they're getting nothing from New Media versions of their work, when clearly, someone else is profiting from said work?
I'm genuinely curious. I don't claim to know the ins and outs of commerce or the industry. But so far, I've seen nothing to dispute what the WGA is trying to achieve. How are they in the wrong, here?
