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TeenageRepublican
02-24-2008, 08:07 PM
The WGA won the strike as many of you know and they got the rights to electronic market. This is great.

But these Hollywood writers are liberals, so they shouldn't get a dime for what they worked for. Regardless of the fantastic creative fiction they help produce.
Like these shows that were delayed thanks to the writers strike...
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"24" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285331/)
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"Friday Night Lights" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758745/)
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"Back to You" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0950721/)

Yes, these writers are trying to brainwash you in to thinking that Bush is Hitler and that Conservatives are Nazis. :rolleyes:

Here's why I supported it.
Ann Coulter or some other conservative writer (since the political views matter so much in how a writer gets paid!) writes a fantastic book on politics. You have two choices, buy it at the store for $29.95 or you can buy the e-book version online for $5.95. Here's the problem, Ann Coulter doesn't get paid for the book she wrote. Only the company gets the profits. Imagine the anger of her readers. They would be leaving dead things on the publishing house's front lawn.
A screenwriter is a little different. They write a screenplay and then they send it to studio after studio until one accepts it. Then they turn it in to a movie.
A screenwriter's movie is like a writer's novel and should be treated like one. They should get paid equally for the media they helped produce.

This has nothing to do with politics other than the minority of those writers helped produce pro-liberal media (there was a probably at the most 5- movies that were liberal last year.). Those writers deserve to be paid for what they worked for.

I'm curious, just what other reasons are there to not support this strike?

Kathekon
02-24-2008, 09:24 PM
The politics of the writers is not an issue (and it's not like the studios are right-wing bastions either). They were right. Their work is generating increasing revenue in new media. They did not share in that revenue. That's not fair.

If the industry is going to have it's contractual relations governed by a collective bargaining master agreement, then the agreement should be fair and reflective of modern technology.

I gather that the studios hung tough against the writers because they have to deal with the actors next and wanted to take a hard line.

TeenageRepublican
02-24-2008, 09:38 PM
The politics of the writers is not an issue (and it's not like the studios are right-wing bastions either). They were right. Their work is generating increasing revenue in new media. They did not share in that revenue. That's not fair.

If the industry is going to have it's contractual relations governed by a collective bargaining master agreement, then the agreement should be fair and reflective of modern technology.

I gather that the studios hung tough against the writers because they have to deal with the actors next and wanted to take a hard line.

Exactly. If regular writers can get a fair share out of electronic publishing then why can't screenwriters?
This is one of those rare situations where a union strike is actually called for.

TeenageRepublican
02-24-2008, 09:51 PM
BTW, here's why I started this thread to talk about it.
Horror Writers Strike (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=53338)
Writers Guild Set to Announce Strike Details at Friday Press Confrence (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=52372)
Strike tilts to the writers (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=52608)

DoctorDoom
02-24-2008, 10:10 PM
Inasmuch as 99.99% of what they produce is LCD crap, I couldn't care less what happened to them. But then, if someone wants that LCD crap enough to pay them to write it, more power to them.

TeenageRepublican
02-24-2008, 10:17 PM
Doc, I misunderstood your post a couple of months earlier. Hope you accept my apology.

Riverboat
02-25-2008, 12:00 AM
Well, the worker is deserving of his wages, or so saith I Timothy 5:17-18.