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Reader Feedback on "Picking Up on the Picket Line"
I liked the story. I'm proud that 'real' writers are try to make a better future for young writers, and old writer wanna-be's like me. The only way any worker will get a fair wage and respect, it to demand it. But the woman in the RayBans was right. It isn't about you getting laid, or even paid, it is about everyone getting fucked by corporate America. Good luck on getting laid too, you deserve it for defending your rights, demanding
--blh
01/29 |
FU, as a guild member, i wanted to respond. i don't expect anyone not involved to give two shits about the writer's strike (faaar more important things going on in the world), but i don't think there's anything "silly" about striking for a fair paycheck. i can't say i've ever watched "the world according to jim" but it makes a shitload of money and now they show it on the internet which is where more and more people are watching tv (and in a few more years tv and the internet will become one entity). not only don't writers make money for their shows broadcast on the internet, the union guys who do the lights, sets, etc don't get money paid into their pensions and health funds the way they would if "the world according to jim" was repeated on tv instead of shown on the net. so basically the corporations are cleaning up on the 'net and claiming it's too new a technology to pay-out on. and just to counter the argument that writers are a bunch of overpaid hacks, the dept of labor lists the average working writer's annual salary as $44,000 and also claims that 45% percent of the guild goes without employment in any given year. not a huge salary to live in an expensive city like LA. so sure don't give a shit (my friends and family don't), but don't hate on the strike cause it's just the same old corporate greed story played out in a white-collar world.
--GG
01/21 |
"Not getting fucked?" Solidarity? Poor writers. Please, go to Detroit and see what fucking unions filled with unskilled labor (don't tell me writing for According to Jim is a talent) can do to a city. Or better yet, go to Peoria, and see what happens when a company like Caterpillar realizes that they don't really need those union guys after all. Hello American Idol. None of us here between the coasts really gives a damn about this silly strike. You all should start realizing that.
--fu
01/17 |
I loved this. I think I'll make my way down to the picket line in NYC and pick-up myself up a cool nerd.
--KK
12/29 |
Fuck, Marry or Kill. That's some twisted shit. Very funny. Keep pounding the pavement.
--LEE
12/22 |
Funny article. Bad circumstances. Why won't these studios pay the writers when they show their work on the Internet? How is it different from their stuff on TV or in theatres. Corporate greed at its worst. I want The Colbert Report back.
--Will
12/13 |
Ha - that's fantastic. Why not get laid on the picket line? If soldiers can do it during war, peace corps volunteers during a famine, and strangers at the brink of death on "Lost", I think the picket line seems a very appropriate place to meet a mate. Nice piece.
--JPM
12/11 |
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