Writer's Strike Funtime Go!

As I write this, I can hear a homeless person going through the recycling downstairs. I feel like that is somehow apt.

Anyways. I'll make this short. Writer's strike is happening. It is a totally necessary but very unfortunate thing. It directly affects the future of entertainment; the major thing on the table right now is royalties and payment strategies for online distribution and new media, so damn right you should care.

Tragedies of the strike:

• Good network television
• Reality TV writers' big chance to officially enter the union's warm embrace (their cause has been dropped in favor of royalties, which is really too bad).
• Heroes: Origins
• Good everything else in media.
• And of course, the livelihoods of friends and talented writers, though hopefully only temporarily.

So. Support the writers, check Nikki Finke for the latest news. I might bake some cookies and take them to CBS Television City tomorrow. Deprived of craft service, who knows to what those writers have been reduced!

Labels: media matters

posted by Liz  # 2:04 PM

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