Sunday, January 20, 2008
Response to Writers' Strike
I think that the production companies should give in to the demands of the writers’ strike. They are losing money from only being able to air old episodes of their TV shows and, although the movie companies are getting by right now from having scripts already written out before the strike, eventually when the writers do start writing again, there will be a shortage of scripts from the period when no one was writing. I find the incident of the America’s Next Top Model employees being fired for voting to join the writers’ union especially bad. I don’t think that it is unreasonable for the writers to want a cut of the money made from people watching television shows on the internet. As this strike is proving, there couldn’t be television without the writers. It would be ridiculous for the Oscars to be canceled because the producers don’t want to give up a small amount of their profits to the people that make the shows possible. This strike has been going on since November and the writers have not caved in yet, so the amount of money the producers would have to give to the writers will probably be about the same amount of money the are losing right now from not having any new episodes to show on TV. I think that the sooner the producers give in to the writers, the better.
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I completely agree with you Allison, a settlement needs to be reached as soon as possible. The producers are losing more money by not settling than they would have to give to the writers.
I couldn't agree more, but the longer this goes on the less and less likely it seems that any sort of reasonable settlement will be reached without third party intervention.
I didn't know about that America's Next Top Model fiasco before i read this- that's pretty messed up. Greed Machine in motion, i guess.
I think the sentiment that this strike needs to be over is one that is shared by the majority of the public and like Dennis and Joseph said, I couldn't agree more as well! And, while I am a fan of American Idol (well, at least the auditions!), the reality scene is getting to be a bit much...
Something needs to be done but the question is who is going to step up and do it?
I definitely agree with you Allison, and with everyone that's commented so far. The longer the strike goes on, the longer it will take for everything to get back to normal after they finally reach an agreement, which will lose the companies even more money. I see the current situation as pretty much a lose-lose situation.
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