Should we egg the greedy hollywood writers on strike?!
Question: They are ruining our entertainment! We purchased these nice and expensive plasma 1080i big screen tv's, premium sound systems, HD cable networks, TiVO, hight end up conversion DVD recorder/player, etc. And now the jerks go on strike! I say we drive by the studios everymorning and egg the pricks!
Answers: They are ruining our entertainment! We purchased these nice and expensive plasma 1080i big screen tv's, premium sound systems, HD cable networks, TiVO, hight end up conversion DVD recorder/player, etc. And now the jerks go on strike! I say we drive by the studios everymorning and egg the pricks!
We'll go together, I'll hand you the eggs and watch you throw the eggs... of course, w/o your shirt on, ok?
It's their job! I wouldn't want someone to egg me at my job if my Union job went on strike and I was fighting for my income to help support my family.
i SO agree with you! they are ruining my life! they should all just get a life and do their job!All my favorite shows are all repeats because of them! I mean, they were getting paid, but they have to be greedy, selfish, and only think of them selves just because they aren't getting credit for the stuff on the internet! WHO CARES!? They are ruining everyone's lives over that stupid thing! It drives me insane!
I have never gone on strike, but I think most jobs have that right.
I assume that you will never do it either, since it would have repercussions for other people.
The writer's and the companies are not agreeing. Since I do not have complete knowledge of both sides points and facts, I withhold judgment.
Don't You do not want the writers following you home. i know I miss the shows too.
The writers are suffering a lot mor than you.
Did you know the mean annual salary of members of the WGA is $5,000.00 per year? When you buy a movie or TV on DVD, the writer gets a whole four cents. That number has been unchanged for 20 years. When you download a movie or TV show via Amazon Unboxed or iTunes, the actors get paid. The director gets paid. The producer gets paid. The writer gets nothing. They want to get an extra four cents per DVD sale, and a few pennies for internet downloads. That doesn't make them greedy. The fact that the studios don't want to pay makes the studios greedy, not the writers.
This strike would be settled easily if the greedy studio moguls would give up a small fraction of their profit to the writers, who are the heart and soul of the industry. It doesn't matter if you have a great cast and a great director and great effects, if your script sucks the final product will suck.
Anyone who is stupid and selfish enough to threaten people for fighting to make a small amount of money for their hard work is a waste of oxygen. Particularly when they're throwing a childish tantrum because enjoy a product created by the people on strike, who are just looking for fair compensation for their work. If their work is that important to you, you should be stalking the producers and studio heads and throwing eggs at them as they drive to their multi-million dollar houses in their expensive cars, and go past the writers who live in apartments and take the bus. The studios are the ones insisting they don't have enough money to give the writers a raise, even though they've been getting paid the same for 20 years (and how many people are making the same now as they did 20 years ago?). The studios are the ones dragging this out, not the writers.
This whole schmeer comes about because the laws that govern intellectual property were written before computer technology and CD/DVD storage were anything much beyond a dream for the distant future.
The problem with writing laws is that if you attempt to make them vague enough to cover all new publication media, those laws get attacked as being too vague to enforce. (This has happened in court already.) If you make the laws more specific (as is the case here), changes in the technology of publication bypass the law leaving folks who depend on that income high and dry.
I'll say this: I don't generally care for unions and I do believe in big business. But fair is fair and the intellectual property of the writers is being taken from them by a technicality of law. So I think some compromise is in order.
Besides that, trust me. It wouldn't be the first time that the big studio bosses have tried to screw the little guys.
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