2. Dear actors/actresses: take a cue from other artists and write your own material.
3. Get ready for more reality shows.
4. YouTube's big day is on the horizon!
5. Whew, I won't have to watch LOST anymore… on the other hand, no more Prison Break? : (
6. Why don't they just pay them???
[p.s., I tried to read about it, and I got confused. Obviously, I do not belong to a union. Label me what you will, but I refer to myself as happy to join associations such as the SPJ. I tend to gravitate toward non profits anyway, so the issue of minimum pay is already a forgone subject. I expect no giant gains. Those in non-profit work who do, they usually end up the center of embezzlement controversy. Note a peach on the Society of Professional Journalists' Web page, and then note a restaurant with similar name that is leaving a wreck of a mismanaged real estate sector for a greasy but above-board (we all nodded, you remember) one a few blocks west. Anyway, no union necessary; I'm already quite the socialist.]
4. YouTube's big day is on the horizon!
5. Whew, I won't have to watch LOST anymore… on the other hand, no more Prison Break? : (
6. Why don't they just pay them???
[p.s., I tried to read about it, and I got confused. Obviously, I do not belong to a union. Label me what you will, but I refer to myself as happy to join associations such as the SPJ. I tend to gravitate toward non profits anyway, so the issue of minimum pay is already a forgone subject. I expect no giant gains. Those in non-profit work who do, they usually end up the center of embezzlement controversy. Note a peach on the Society of Professional Journalists' Web page, and then note a restaurant with similar name that is leaving a wreck of a mismanaged real estate sector for a greasy but above-board (we all nodded, you remember) one a few blocks west. Anyway, no union necessary; I'm already quite the socialist.]
3 comments:
I think the free falling Chiefs are that way because of the writer's strike.. no new plays have been written since the beginning of the walkout and thus the red and white have become horribly predictable. Sure, other teams have no new plays either, but theirs were better to begin with and better written.
I understand the writer's position, but I also think that everyone in Hollywood is ridiculously overpaid anyway. So I'm not really upset that the writers aren't getting what they consider to be a big enough piece of an already over-sized pie. Imo, they're living their dreams and are lucky to be getting paid at all. The rest of us artists are working boring jobs where we are under-appreciated AND underpaid. At least the writers are appreciated for doing what they love to do and get recognition in the credits of every show they write.
Of course I'm also coming out of a career in television where I was never paid enough nor appreciated because I refused to live in a city (LA) where I would need an inhaler just to walk around downtown. So perhaps the writers need more money to buy their smog medicine.
Oh, there's so much about this that's crazy... writers are trying to get a piece of the internet pie, and who can blame them? The important thing for them is staying the course until the producers give up a slightly bigger piece of revenue than they want to. It's not just for the writer's that they need to do this though, it's for the actors and directors and all the other creatives who create these shows and movies and get nothing when they're played/downloaded (legally) off the internet.
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