Bush caused the Writer's Strike, Either Hillary or Obama settled it.....a very balanced look at both what the writers and what the business has actually become HERE
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Bush caused the Writer's Strike, Either Hillary or Obama settled it.....a very balanced look at both what the writers and what the business has actually become HERE
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2/21/2008 08:49:00 AM
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Thanks Howard. Very amusing article. At the beginning of the strike I tried to understand WHY STRIKE? but quickly gave up. The WGA Bolshevik rhetoric turned me off and the archaic, complicated method of computing residuals lost me. I actually got angry about the semingly arbitrary singling out of certain shows to grant waivers to: Letterman & Ferguson but not Leno, Conan or Kimmel; pitting one against the other for ratings disgusted me. And last but not least, the BTL jobs lost, people thrown out of work.
I used to belong to a union which managed to collective bargain good wages and benefits without striking; not perfect, but it worked. Besides, I think most of us out here ENVY the hard life of a Hollywood writer!
-Conan O'Lenoman
P.S. I saw the strike politically as a bunch of liberal screenwriters angry at a bunch of rich liberal producers--no conservatives in this fight. No bigger issues there, except how we are all going to cope in the 21st century...Kinda scary, huh?
-Conan
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