WRITERS and FRIENDS

WGA members picket Universal with a little help from their friends... SAG members and others. The casette recording and cell phone photos are as raw as the impromptu music but the meaning is clear, the unity obvious, the cause just.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• WGA
• strike
• SAG
• union
• songs
• actors

[tarhun]

It's the studios who are willing to let the art be punished by not fairly compensating the people who create it. It's a beautiful idea you're proposing, that people can make art without compensation, and maybe in the future places like youtube will allow them do that even for shows like Lost. However at the moment the fact is people need to be payed, and payed fairly, for their creative efforts. That is what the WGA is fighting for.

[aymo]

And do you REALLY think shows like LOST and Prison Break would be what they are without the WRITERS!?! My gosh, who do you think it is that comes up with the shows, and the compelling plots and dialogue that make them worth watching? The strike is NOT the writers fault, the studios need to wake up and realize that they need to pay them their fair share for THEIR work.

[Xhell420]

yea, we dont want you. sell your tv and move out of this country. asshole.

[Xhell420]

they dont make that much. believe me. in fact for the people that design out entertainment, the prolly profit the least, except for the sound mixer. so know what your talking about or shut the hell up.

[razerfish]

No wonder Sara scorned you, because you, sir, are an asshole.

[ScornedbySara]

SO you're a writer? And do you talk to all viewers who watch your shit but don't always agree with you like that? YOU'RE the asshole, diva!

[Lonewolfjedi]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I for one support what they are fighting for

[heine71]

Let's sing the FRIENDS theme song:

"I'll be there for you, writers..."

[janusstarfinder]

Imagine you worked a full week (40 hours), didn't get paid, and were told you were selfish for wanting to get paid. And then the people who benefit from your work say, "I don't care what it costs you as long as I get to be entertained. I work hard at real work. Your work is so worthless that you should be thanking me for even taking an interest in it."

[ScornedbySara]

I don't need life lessons from you. You have no conception of the things that have happened in my life. Anyone who dissents from popular opinion is not immature or a troll.

[ScornedbySara]

Selfish? An hour of entertainment is too much to ask now? You people can say wholeheartedly that the studios need the writers, but the writers need the viewers too. How dare I expect the writers to do their jobs? Maybe I just shouldn't watch their shows if I'm such a selfish viewer.

[ScornedbySara]

I didn't bring up the war.