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Studios, Writers Guild Avert Strike With Last-Minute Deal (hollywoodreporter.com)
Jonathan Handel, writing for The Hollywood Reporter: Talks between the Writers Guild of America and AMPTP studio alliance went down to the wire Monday night but ultimately resulted in a three-year deal, averting a threatened walkout that could have cost jobs and homes, hit the California economy with a $200 million blow per week, accelerated cord-cutting and driven audiences off linear channels and onto digital platforms. David Young, executive director of WGA West, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that a deal had been reached. Leaving the closed door meetings, Patric Verrone, who was WGA president last time the guild went on strike in 2007-2008, told THR it was a good deal for the writers. Michael Winship, president of Writers Guild East, echoed Verrone's comments and added that the union effectively mobilized the membership with the authorization.
Would have been nice to send a bunch of "writers" packing. They don't so much write today as they do recycle anyway. No wonder people are moving their eyes away to new venues.
If you aren't good enough to deserve a favorable contract, why should someone better lend you their merit?
If California got a right-to-work law, these unions would dry up and blow away overnight.
Seems it's original material that's missing these days. There's loads of pretty faces that can recite lines with a medium emotional range.
Say what you want but if there was no demand for their work no one would bother to negotiate with them.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
I can't believe either side let things get this far, because it just makes the truth more obvious and the more obvious it is, the faster the revolution goes.
Neither studio nor writer had any leverage here. Both sides had everything to lose and nothing to win.
One day we'll admit broadcast is a dead medium and concentrate on delivery of on-demand streams over the Internet, perhaps leaving a few FTA PBS stations in a much reduced spectrum so the poorest and most rural folk still have something.
Of course, as the airwaves are national property, so the copper, fiber optic, and microwaves of the Internet should also be. Information infrastructure is too critical in the Information Age to let regional monopolies hold it hostage.
I thought we were going to have to watch stale repetitive, mind numbing bullshit. Oh... I guess I misread it. They didn't strike.
The quality wouldn't improve or worsen much any ways, no matter if they had come to an agreement or not.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Even in real life writers in Hollywood have to reboot everything. Take something from 10 years ago, update bits of the story, recast some of the main actors, and change the ending.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
That was all the drama they could come up with this year. As I see it the scenario went like this....
Writers: "What do we want to do this year?"
Studios: "How about we publish in the news that we are in dispute and create a little suspense of our own eminent demise"
Writers: "I like it, not only will we generate concern for us, but then we will not have to write any new material this year"
Studios: "I like it, it's a win-win for both of us and we still will not produce any thing people will watch."
And now the contractors in the cubes around me think I'm insane, after an extremely loud outburst of laughter.
Worth it.
I'd say that the most important element of a television show or a movie is the writing-- if it's badly written and doesn't make any sense, it hardly matters whether the acting and cinematography are good or bad. But your mileage may vary.
They do? Last I checked I pay the same as all my coworkers, and the risk assessment is done as a pool.
When you cant win, ad hominem.
...ultimately resulted in a three-year deal, averting a threatened walkout that could have cost jobs and homes...
I mean, I guess it's correct since people without jobs may default on their mortgages, but why are homes mentioned like the writer's strike is going to have a direct impact on California's house-building industry?
You mean the writer who championed personal responsibility and ended up on government assistance?
You are welcome on my lawn.
They do? Last I checked I pay the same as all my coworkers, and the risk assessment is done as a pool.
You attempted to claim that people benefited due to your good driving and eating habits. If what you claim is true regarding your insurance: Your insurance does not give benefits to anyone because of you, and does not take away benefits due to someone else. Your "good" behavior is balanced into costs just like someone else' "bad" is balanced into cost. You can't have it both ways.
Why don't you tell us which car insurance you have that would not raise your rates if you had traffic accidents and tickets? Show me a single insurance company which gives the same rates to a 18 year old that they do to a 40 year old with the same driving records. I don't know a single company that exists which does not change your rate based on your driving habits. Meaning, people with bad behavior pay more due to higher risk. As with above, you can't have it both ways.
Mom always said honesty is the best policy, try it sometimes.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
If you're going to make your entire reason for existence arguing that the government shouldn't help anyone and then be the first one in line for government help, it's just not a good look.
There is virtually nothing about Atlas Shrugged that has been, "prophetic". At least not in the way Rand intended.
You are welcome on my lawn.
If you have an accident, your premiums go up. Your rates reflect the risk that you have on the pool, and always do. You are ignoring what insurance is and how it works. The insurer has to put up money ahead of time based on risk assessment. If you change your risk value you will pay more, and that payment is like a mortgage. Insurance will eventually cut your plan if you become too high of a risk.
Your next insurance company will give you a much higher premium because they are aware of your risk to the pool.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Atlas Shrugged was fiction.
She did write a Philosophy book, but it was called "Philosophy: Who Needs It?"
Why is it that these types of Randhead morons don't even read her books? She tears into them pretty hard in Who Needs It, for being moronic followers instead of real Objectivists. As she also points out, real Objectivists are likely to disagree with her often because she isn't an expert in very many fields and they should be trying to advance their understanding not just find something to repeat.
Claiming Atlas Shrugged was fiction is like claiming JRR Tolkien 's books had nothing to do with Christianity. The purpose of the book was to display the end game of progressivism/marxism in the US. The "progressive" movement has been around since the very early 1900s.
Most of the people commenting never read any of her books, which becomes obvious with irrational claims.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
.. and that is exactly what is happening, and why collectively the 'old market' providers are scrambling. Why do you think buying your cable service ala carte is lobbied against so heavily? Gotta protect those old ideas and old revenue streams somehow. Some smart people have taken notice and are pouring money into effectively replacing Hollywood by creating their own movies and TV series that you can watch individually, and it's working. Game of Thrones, House of Cards, The Grand Tour, etc.
You clearly haven't even read the book. You read a website that lied to you and told you it was telling you about the book.
You can also use a dictionary and look up the word "fiction." Writing a story to give social commentary about the real world by using imaginary characters? That's just fiction, man. There is no need to go all, "oh, oh, oh, she wrote it for the purpose of political commentary, that means it isn't fiction!" No, it means you're an idiot.
False dichotomy. The point of comparison is from the outside in. Of course Christian Theology does not teach "Tolkien", but scholars do. Marxists and Progressives won't use Rand as a comparison point, scholars who believe in personal liberty and freedom do.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Lies, beget lies, beget lies. I have read it twice, but I have no confidence you have. Like the first post I responded to, you avoid the topics and go right to bullshit and personal attack.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Intellectual dishonestly deserves ridicule, and it does reflect negatively on ones personal character.
That's hardly new - though it has accelerated in recent years. One of the most famous examples is Star Trek. The original series was a network show, and Roddenberry was never entirely happy with the result because he had to constantly deviate from his real vision to please network executives who didn't want to show anything that may upset conservatives. That first interracial kiss may have been groundbreaking but it was about as far as he could go.
When he decided to do Star Trek again - he didn't go back to the network, he funded it himself, in a studio rented from a movie company and made it independently - then syndicated a result defined by his own vision - and produced TNG. Personally I consider TNG a far superior series - exactly because he didn't have to compromise. A lot of the logical inconsistencies of TOS went away when nobody told him he couldn't show his preferred solutions. The extreme misogyny that is oh so prevalent in TOS is completely missing from TNG, where women characters were multi-dimensional and excelled even in positions of authority. As Doctor Katherine Polaski pointed out in her final appearance: she was the one person on board the enterprise who could order Picard to do something he didn't want to do. And one of the sequels to that even had a women captain. Meantime ToS had exactly one notable female character and her role mostly consisted of repeating whatever the computer said and one-time kissing the captain.
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