Stopheles - 2007-11-10
Makes a pretty strong case.
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GoodAaron - 2007-11-10
If anyone can find an AMPTP or Producer's Guild rebuttal video for this, I'm genuinely interested to see it up here for comparison.
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baleen - 2007-11-10
Most people seem to believe that all writers with work are rich and fuck models like in that terrible show Californication (the writers of that show do not deserve representation and should be sent to Cuba in duffel bags). I love that the guy told everybody to read the Fountainhead. Ayn Rand probably had no problem collecting residuals on the movie adaptation.
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FABIO2 - 2007-11-10 What makes a bigger douchebag: a management member with a copy of The Fountainhead by his desk or one with a copy of The Art of War?
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baleen - 2007-11-10
I'm actually going down there to show my support (in NYC).
You're going to see a lot of WGA strikes in the coming years because they are trying to absorb game writers and reality show editor-writers into the Guild. Both groups get zero residuals and are perhaps the most poorly treated professionals in the entertainment business.
I also had to laugh when Ronald Reagan's face popped up, because Craig Mazin, the exiting President of the WGA and writer of such gems as Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and Scary Movie 5, is a devout Reagan Republican.
And a complete jackass.
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theSnake - 2007-11-10 Reality show writers deserve less than zero residuals, they should be paying me. Then shot.
Game story writers deserve it though.
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baleen - 2007-11-10
Ha ha! Survivor sucks. Survivorman is a good show. The point is that they do work. Some people are making all the money and the workers are not getting the percentage that they should. Whether or not you like the product or are jealous of the perceived lifestyle that these writers lead is irrelevant. I do not use gas stations and think petroleum fuel is stupid but I believe gas station attendants should be paid a livable wage and should live with a little dignity when Exxon states a 33 billion dollar profit within a single year.
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doc duodenum - 2007-11-10 Aren't some reality shows using writers? I remember Tyra Banks fired a bunch of them from her show last year when they tried to go on a WGA strike.
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doc duodenum - 2007-11-10 I forgot the word "union" in my first sentence.
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baleen - 2007-11-10
All reality TV shows use writers. They write the narration, they assemble the "story lines," and they very often write the "real" dialog spoken by the subjects. Often times these writers are the bench editors of the shows themselves. They are treated like contract workers and sometimes work 12 to 16 hour days for relatively small amounts of money and zero benefits.
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doc duodenum - 2007-11-10 Editors make a lot more than that. Someone told me they make six figures. Writers make even more, but I was wondering how reality shows are able to work without story writers.
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baleen - 2007-11-10
Yes it's true they do, but it's because of the WGA and the MPEG that they have such high salaries.
Very few editors make six figures, only the top feature film editors break 100K. When they are on the payroll of the big networks they make plenty. One of the strange loopholes that reality shows consist upon is that these people are neither writers nor editors.
A little rundown of the problem:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-06-21-realit y-writers-union_x.htm
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x - 2007-11-10 Where do they picket in NYC?
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Caminante Nocturno - 2007-11-10
The music is very uninspiring, regardless of the point they are making.
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Horsecock Johnson, M.D. - 2007-11-10
Solidarity, my union* brothers!
*I am no longer in a union, although I am proud of my time as a Teamster and wish I had worked harder to get into SAG when I had the chance.
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j lzrd / swift idiot - 2007-11-10
I'm hoping this goes on long enough for scab writers to come in and ruin television for the next twenty years. Anyway, hope the WGA gets their due, regardless. I mean, four fucking cents, seriously.
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Crucifried - 2007-11-10
As Andy Breckman elloquently put it "We're not as rich as we could be!" I support the writers guild 100%.
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theSnake - 2007-11-10
I'm willfully ignorant of the situation, but I support unions so there.
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NoCode - 2007-11-10
Without writers, entertainment would be totally unentertaining. I love these guys. I hope they get all the money they're fighting for.
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NineEleven - 2007-11-10
FUCK WRITERS GIMME MORE NUDTY FROFJLFKDJSF:DKSLJ
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bac - 2007-11-10
I would describe that video as nifty.
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Stog - 2007-11-10
Thank you, writers, By striking, you guys have prevented another season of 24 from happening. A million stars just for that.
The writers deserve a hell of a lot more than what they are getting.
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theSnake - 2007-11-11 I love 24. Its pure stupid action. Also, they don't need writers to crank out episodes of 24, they just need Kiefer to kill warehouses full of terrorists with a pistol. They don't need writers to crank out 24 anymore so you are foiled.
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Hooker - 2007-11-10
I'm split on this issue. Three stars.
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athodyd - 2007-11-11
this'll show those Pinkerton thugs what for
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