The Writers' Strike
shows no sign of ending anytime soon. Things are so bad that the parties aren't even negotiating. The writers are picketing. Celebrities are delivering fast food to the picketers. The studio bosses are busy firing all of Jay Leno's staff and trying to find a guest host that will cross picket lines and sit in for
Jay (clearly, someone that never wants to be a future guest on The Tonight Show).
The short-sighted studio heads (there are actually only six giant conglomerates that control almost all media that you see on TV) have their heads stuck firmly in the sand, as technology is leaping forward. They are refusing to pay writers even one penny in residuals for new media. When all television eventually goes digital and DVDs are obsolete, tv shows will be downloaded, streamed, or zapped onto viewers' televisions, cellphones or PDAs. Writers have no deal in place for the new technology -- all they want is a tiny percentage of the profits -- if there are any. It's a fair deal, because DVDs are going away (the writers currently get 4 cents on every DVD sold).
Why not show your support for the hardworking scribes who create all your favorite TV shows? Despite what you might have read, the majority of screenwriters make very low salaries and are unemployed much of the time, as they only work from project to project with no job security at all. You can find lots of cool writers' strike swag at StrikeSwag.com. All profits support the WGA.
You can find full coverage of the Writers' Strike (What's it all about? What's the current status of all my shows? Where can I find breaking news to read instead of working? What celebrity delivered what food to the picket lines today?) at our sister site WritersWrite.com's comprehensive Writers' Strike Section.
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