Writers Explain The Strike
The Writers Guild of America explains to overweight Americans why 24 is delayed.
I'm torn between solidarity and disinterest, given my writing gig requires I ceaselessly and thanklessly shit out a wall of content daily or face being replaced by a digg bobble. I'm pretty sure if dot-com tech writers decided to strike, we'd be replaced by a refurbished Tandy before we'd stowed our Eee PC in our rucksack.
Having watched poets struggle to so much as publish a chapbook that sells a handful of copies -- a world where you'd make a minimum of $31,879 a week for writing a soap opera is alien phrenology.
Stll, knowing how these companies operate, I'm all for artists getting what's owed. NBC Universal is the type of entity that would pay its artists in severed puppy heads and glass baubles, if they could pay lawmakers enough to turn the other cheek.
I still think you View writers are intellectually cancerous halfwits who wouldn't last five seconds in the two-way-communication, no-life insurance, 'what the fuck is a 401k' world inhabited by most writers...
But godspeed all the same!