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  • 22/f/single/cam! ne1 want to see? A

  • ok actually they aren't the ones who are money hungry and greedy its the networks and the other "big wigs" who have millions of dollars but can't bare to part with a small portion of it to give the writers their fair royalties. they are the ones you should be calling names seeing as they are the ones who want everything and can't stand to let any money go.

  • fukin fags GIVE ME MY OFFICE BACK U PUSSIES

  • Boo f-ing hoo, we can't write well enough to make a living and we refuse to get a regular job inbetween our writing jobs....... someone feed us. We aren't greedy it is the guys running the networks.......... wait oops I desided to be a writer insted of an owner of industry. Never mind still feel sorry for me I may only make $105,000.00 in one year as 50% of the other writers do. Fell sorry for the six figure guy.... Please???

  • I have no respect for them at this point. This is evidence that unions have become corrupt.

  • i don't support them!

  • check out my strike video.

  • What a bunch of c*nts, they need to sort it out and stop being so money hungry.

  • I support the WGA fully and 100%. The only problem is, as an actor, I can't set up Auditions for CSI Miami, which really kinda bummed me out. But still, the WGA deserves everything. I didn't know the President of the West WGA writes Futurama. That's awesome!

  • did you say your an actor?

  • it'll be hilarious if this goes on forever and all the channels become like access cable. irony man.

    it seems like every time I see a protest, there's Tom Morello. does he teleport from one protest to the next?

  • oky.......they have there point.....but what about all the people from other countries that dont have the possibility to see it on tv.......because the televisions dont have money to buy the series............what are they supposed to do if they love the series and wanna see them........i understand both sides!!!!!!!!!!

  • its not just the shows, the music industry is basically in the same situatuin as well, unless you use itunes to actually buy songs, or buy Cd's the artist you're listening to probably doesn't have that multi million dollar house like people imagine, they probably are regular people like us, and music artists need that money... why? because if you like their music then they deserve that money

  • Maybe if the WGA would actually negotiate a deal could be reached. I understand wanting what you believed you're entitled to, but this standstill we're at right now is doing no one any good

  • AMEN!!!

  • The last strike lasted 22wks im not surprised if this one will last longer, since this time the topic is about internet platform vs royalties. Internet is gonna be a long lasting platform, WGA, I believe is making the right decision to hold out for what they want since if they settle too soon they are going to be shafted for a long long time. good luck WGA booyeah

  • VICTORY WILL BE OURS!

  • Stewie!

  • What is SAG

  • screen actors guild

  • Hah, McFarlane.

  • you want your rights? VOTE DENNIS KUCINICH. wake up or suffer. your choice. (and can you write something that i might remotely be interested in when you come back?)

  • you wake up! kucinich has not publicly supported the WGA!

  • I refuse to believe that any IATSE member would not be on the side of the WGA. So you lost a gaffe job on the set of "Cavemen," suck it up, because I know what our union salary is, and it's a buttload more than theirs. Show some support, and you'll be back as A1 or DP on "Samantha Who?" before you know it.

  • But the writers are the creators. that's where you're wrong. If it was not for them, there would be no business for these corporate fucks. If you think tv is bad now, just wait.

  • So your metaphor of what's right is stealing someone else's invention for your own profit, without giving them anything in return except to spit on them if they bother you about it.

    You have a twisted sense of right and wrong.

    What business are you in?

  • so the best way to fix "pretty crappy" entertainment is to pay writers less. You must be related to the douche that conglomerated Mcdonalds. Make me a million dollars a month, and I'll pay you 8...no wait $6.75 an hour.

  • Union destroyed manufacturing jobs in the US. The SAG is responsible for movie projects costing more (and the cost being pushed off on us ticket buyers). Socialism doesn't work. Capitalism works. If the writers hate their pay scale then invest their own money in their own projects.

  • i bet they would if they had the residuals to actually invest in something.

  • Great to know that Socialism only works in 95% of the entire world, excluding the U.S. We're to busy watching the dollar getting royally bitch-slapped by the socialist Euro. This just in, even the socialist regime of Canada has managed to bring their money to similar monetary value.

  • And as an IATSE member, who has already lost one job to this stupid strike, I say FUCK YOU, GET BACK TO THE TABLE, AND STOP ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF BABIES!

  • fox and viacom shut down colbert show on internet and expliot the writers. Corp win the day.

    EVIL

  • what dose WGA stand for

  • Worthless greedy assholes

  • "We're shutting down production and we're kicking corporate ASS!"

    Well stated.

  • wait you mean a company is making money? yeah that sucks. How dare they.

    Most of these WGA writers make AT LEAST $200 000 per year.

  • No, SOME OF THEM do. There are a few writers that are pretty well off, but most of the writers only make a few thousand dollars a year from writing. For most of the year, when they're not working on films or TV shows, they rely on residuals to stay afloat.

  • that's right. Actually, the ones that don't sell many scripts have seconday jobs. Once you get your foot in the door, ie, sell one or two scripts, it's very easy to get into the writing aspect of Hollywood. Those writers either suck or don't know how to play ball.

  • Actually, the average WGA writer makes $62,000 per year. Most writers make less than that - and nearly half of WGA writers are unemployed each year.

  • Are you an expert? An economist? Do you have statistics to prove this?

  • It doesn't matter how much money the writers make, if you write something, and a company streams it on the internet along with advertisements and makes money off of those ads, they're profitting off of your work. You deserve to get paid, as your labor and efforts made the company money.

  • Then maybe they should get a good agent or lawyer to draw that up in your contract. Otherwise EARN that privelege. God, it's the writer's idea. It's also the studio's money. Why don't a few of you socialist wackos wake up to the reality that this is a ridiculous strike that is only to hurt the entire industry. Give them more money my butt!

  • i HATE fox now those bastards!

  • i dont care if the wga makes 90 percent residuals or if they make 0 just give me my tv back :(

  • What Jesse Jackson is doing there is, as he said in his own words, fighting for the workers to share in the participation and growth of their own industry. To anyone who thinks this about whiny Hollywood rich folks just looking to get richer: Jesse Jackson doesn't show up to places where it's just about rich folks getting richer! This is about fair-is-fair!

  • MLMA TV TRAILER...GET READY!!!

  • Uh...Jesse Jackson? What the hell is he doing there?

  • write my fuckin tv shows back to work ya ya!

  • I love all of the whiny bitchy negative comments that all basically amount to "WAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAA!!!!!! We're gonna miss our Pwecious TV shows!! WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

  • A question I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere...How much do the union members make...or made?

  • From what I've read on various sites, there is a logical reason. Because of the strike, studios get to recind certain movie/tv deals and get hundreds of thousands of dollars returned to their pockets. Many studio heads get bonuses based on these savings.  The studio heads are not hurting at all. Anyone laid off can draw unemployment BUT- the writers cannot. So the studios save all the way around and get to see many of the writers struggle.

  • Weird seeing t.v. stars doing a strike.

  • Dude ain't no Woody Guthrie. ;-)

    Go WGA!

  • I miss Smallville. I hope the strike ends soon.

  • The contract was up October 31, 2007 and both sides were aware that the strike could start as of November 1, 2007. When corporate chose to walk away with no decent offer on the table and in such bad faith, the writers voted to strike as of November. If the writers had seen a good faith effort on the part of the studios it sounds like they would have strongly considered deferring the strike. However, they certainly couldn't wait a year. As of now there is NO contract.

  • WGA made the right decision. I support them 100%

  • Since when has Seth MacFarlane been so pro-union? According to the Hollywood Reporter he has a multi million dollar deal with Google and Adsense to produce scripted programming for the web already. I doubt anybody working on those projects is in the union, are they? Does that mean we get to see Family Guy on the web with Seth using non-union writers? I'll take it either way.

  • he's not pro union. at least he wasn't 7 days ago.he's just fodder for those fatcats. Seth Macfarlane and Jess Jackson. fightin' for the rights of the poor and disenfranchised. It's the end of civilization. wake up wake up wake up wake up

  • He's very pro WGA. The details of his deal will be under the WGA and set a standard for future deals of this nature. This is not the first time Seth has used his position to assert creator/writer rights.

  • Oh well, time for me to download season 3 of Lost :D

  • Phana, your theory doesn't hold, because if anything, the networks will keep shows they normally would have cancelled. Because of the strike, they can't put new shows into productions. They have to use what they already have and they will burn off shows that they probably wouldn't have brought back.

    Anyway you've missed the point. The strike is for the future not just for today.

  • I totally support the WGA. They're completely right and they deserve more. It's FANTASTIC that the SAG is supporting them!! I hope that the networks get their heads out of their asses soon and good luck to the WGA!

  • I support the WGA 100%, their demands are reasonable the studios are just being unbelievably greedy. Yet I have one problem with the picket signs. This is a WRITER strike, why aren't the signs more creative?

  • Their demands are reasonable, their plight is unfortunate. I support the WGA, keep it up! Oh, and reality tv sucks!

  • RALLY ROUND THE FLAG TO SETTLE!

  • love the ending!!!

    Victory will be ours!!!

    Who's up for givin them mad-cow disease?? I am!! How dare they not pay the SVU writers!!!

  • Ijsut litsstned to the newest slice of scifi podcast and appearently, I have reall only one with wrong with this strike. Hournyman and pushing daises will come back next year.....but guess what else might?

    Cavemen!Okay, every single writer can come back but the writer of caveman lol

  • I fyou ask me, ther e has nevr been a better time to strike. TV is really worth taking a time to wacth now, so now is the time.

    Take it to 'em writers....or WGA......the true heroes of heroes. Okay, osrry that was bad.

  • Stick it to the man! Support the WGA!

  • Go WGA! Keep up the fight!

  • Seth doing Stewie? Where is this strike going to end? Remember there are millions of TV viewers that cannot stand too many repeats and will eventually turn off their TV's and will cause a major turnoil to the Writers Guild!

  • long live the creative unions. otherwise, eventually we will only have judge shows.

  • AWESOME

    KEEP STRONG STAND TALL

    my full support goes out to one and all you will win in the end !!! keep up the good fight !!

  • Bring the networks and studios to their knees!

  • I really support all of this, and keep it up, you'll win. Also, who's putting this videos up? Or exactly who is the owner of the wgaamerica user?

  • keep strong, stand tall

  • LMAO@theend

    Yay WGA!

  • Wouldnt it be nice if this strike reawakened the union spirit in America. Unions created our middle class. The middle class has been destroyed in the last 20 years.

    Perhaps the realization that we are all in this together can create a middle class once again.

    GO WGA!!!!

  • I geuss there are some people that just don't get it. This is a fight for survival, just like in any other industry. Most of these people live off of their residuals. That means money for food, shelter, and electricity. These people are fighting for their constitutional right to be compensated for what they create. New Media is here now. They deserve some revenu for their work distributed through new media. If I were a member, I'd be right there with them. Keep it up.

  • GO WGA!

  • You guys are awesome!

  • you know, if you don't care...then why the HELL are you even watching this?!

    If you don't even watch TV that much than why do you care considering the immature way you've been acting here.

    And I would suggest researching instead of making ignorant comments. You aren't going to win this one since your comments are all rated down.

  • Stay strong, writers! The fans are behind you all the way.

  • Question: Is the person running this youtube channel Patric Verrone? Just curious.

  • nope

  • Because there are other people protesting for that. Don't you watch tv, like even a little? I know tv is not the most important thing for you but this is about their jobs. Just like you have a job, right? You'd protest to get what's right for your job.

  • I haven't spoken to the stars of Prison Break but there were many celebrities on hand to support the rally on Friday. I think the longer this strike drags on the more stars you'll see joining the picket lines with us.

  • What your doing is great. You put faces to a cause and make the story of what's happening stand out. While my internship is in jeopardy, the fact you guys can stand up for what you deserve is amazing. Keep it up. :)

  • So are the numbers growing? Is seth MacFarlane out there everyday? I might just get a flight to Hollywood!

  • Writers deserve better than this... they are the backbone of every good show we have come to love... I just hope this stuff is resolved soon though...:(

  • Thank you.

  • RAGE ON, YOU MAGINFICENT BASTARDS!!!

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