Letters to the Editor
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Hooray
May this portend a change towards fairness in all parts of our society.
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thanks for this
As a Guild member, many thanks for this account. It's not only true to all the facts I know and to my own experience of the strike -- it's also an important element of the strike as well. Certain administrations have taught us that we must always fight a rear-guard action against the rewriting of history, and I have no doubt that the AMPTP is already figuring out how to spin our strike success against us in the future. Getting the facts down now in cold print is vital.
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A very hearty congratulations to the WGA!
Serious kudos to all of you for sticking to your guns!
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Not exactly a Hollywood happy ending.
The original negotiations were going to include animation writers. This point was eliminated in the final agreement.
And undoubtedly, some of you are saying "Who cares about them? They write The Fairly OddParents and Bratz. They're crap writers." Well...even if you eliminate the very lucrative children's animation on TV, cable and home video sales - some of whose works are mature enough to impress adults that haven't sold their souls - how much of a film like 300 or Sin City was done in the CGI workstations? Doesn't that qualify as animation? Couldn't producers say "My film is primarily animation" and pay the writers the much lower wages assigned to animated films?
The WGA has said they will continue to pursue coverage of animation writing. Well, a promise is better than nothing. But for Mr. Norman to paint a puppies-and-cotton-candy picture in this article is unrealistic.
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studio-hired internet shills hurt their own cause more than they know
Any web page carrying reader comments on the strike was blanketed by the same kind of shilling that goes on with any review site.
It was painfully obvious. As it always is.
I went from being a WGA member who voted AGAINST the strike to someone who would have stayed out for a year or more if necessary.
Simply because of the shills. Who were not just an insult to the intelligence (as always), but a sign of weakness and worry in the AMPTP.
They were the public face of the Opposition (after the AMPTP refused to negotiate further).
Not Captains of Industry and Masters of the Universe who walk the globe eating labor unions for breakfast and shitting them out before lunch.
But common internet TROLLS.
That's what writers saw day in day out. Is it any wonder the Guild held together?
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Congratulations!
Now you can get back to writing jokes for The New Adventures of Old Christine (like, Christine is having a "heavy flow" day when she meets a cute guy - oh, the hilarity!)
Now you can return to writing the opus "National Lampoon's Van Wilder III" - and figure out a way to cleverly insert Stifler and Pauly Shore into the compelling story arc!
Now you can create more tense moments in "CSI: Miami" - where David Caruso's face is juxtaposed with a dead Haitian's tattooed ankle and a bikini-clad arse on South Beach. Oh, the depths of layered visual prose.....
Yup: Welcome back, writers!! Here's to getting paid ridiculous sums of money to create schlock that makes Deal or No Deal look like and erudite introspective on the human condition.
For me? Back, as always, to PBS...
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Congratulations!
Now you can get back to writing jokes for The New Adventures of Old Christine (like, Christine is having a "heavy flow" day when she meets a cute guy - oh, the hilarity!)
Now you can return to writing the opus "National Lampoon's Van Wilder III" - and figure out a way to cleverly insert Stifler and Pauly Shore into the compelling story arc!
Now you can create more tense moments in "CSI: Miami" - where David Caruso's face is juxtaposed with a dead Haitian's tattooed ankle and a bikini-clad arse on South Beach. Oh, the depths of layered visual prose.....
Yup: Welcome back, writers!! Here's to getting paid ridiculous sums of money to create schlock that makes Deal or No Deal look like and erudite introspective on the human condition.
For me? Back, as always, to PBS...
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Congratulations!
Now you can get back to writing jokes for The New Adventures of Old Christine (like, Christine is having a "heavy flow" day when she meets a cute guy - oh, the hilarity!)
Now you can return to writing the opus "National Lampoon's Van Wilder III" - and figure out a way to cleverly insert Stifler and Pauly Shore into the compelling story arc!
Now you can create more tense moments in "CSI: Miami" - where David Caruso's face is juxtaposed with a dead Haitian's tattooed ankle and a bikini-clad arse on South Beach. Oh, the depths of layered visual prose.....
Yup: Welcome back, writers!! Here's to getting paid ridiculous sums of money to create schlock that makes Deal or No Deal look like and erudite introspective on the human condition.
For me? Back, as always, to PBS...
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We always believed that
"Deal or No Deal" was really an unknown work by Shakespeare. So get back to your inkwells and entertain us.
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Here's to the WGA!
Many congratulations! May your success herald in a new era of strength and growth for unions so that eventually all employees are compensated with fair wages and benefits. Workers unite!
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happy ending...
...except for the crew members with no stake in the strike who were tossed out of work just in time for Christmas. I'm not saying the WGA didn't deserve a bigger piece of the profit pie, but Norman blithely ignores the thousands who were put out of work and makes no mention of their un-volunteered sacrifice on the altar of the WGA's self-righteousness. I predict writers will get their nickel a download or whatever they got, but they'll be less work all around, and at the end of the day a lot fewer nickels. The earth didn't stop spinning for 3 months of reality t.v., and all the strike did was prove that there are many ways to fill up t.v. schedules and viewing time. The DGA proved that there's a civilized way to go about getting what you need. Both sides in the WGA strike behaved like nasty children, and the rank and file paid for it. The WGA may feel it slew a giant, but doesn;t care for the people whose houses got squashed when it came crashing to the ground.