WRITER SPEAKS OUT

A WGA member, Howard Gould, tells over 3,000 fellow writers why he believes we must strike.

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• WGA
• Writer
• Strike
• Standing
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• Solidarity
• Union

[shont2006]

I have to admit...I watch all my favorite shows on the internet. I watch zero shows when they actually air.

Those days aren't just coming...they are already here.

[Jarrow]

Work is work is work. Being a Physician is work even if you love medicine. Being a bookkeeper is work even if you love math. Playing professional sports is work even if you love your sport. Rush Limbaugh LOVES to talk, is his show work? You bet it is, that's why he gets 30,000,000 per year. If you get paid for it, it is usually a job of some sort.

[Jarrow]

Wait, more name-calling. YIPPEE! Crack-whores? Well that makes us nearly the oldest profession now, doesn't it? Maybe not the 'crack' part, but we have you to thank for that innovation. I suppose anyone who works could be construed to be prostituting something. Still, I think I'm done with this discourse since you're now just calling the Studios/Producers 'Johns' and the audience a bunch of porn addicts. That's just too much for me to endure!

[Jarrow]

Ooooooooh, catching your inconsistency touch a nerve? Perhaps we really should all agree to characterize your statements as BRRRRRILLIANT, for when you use the term 'fair' it must mean something other than what YOU characterize otherw mean when they use the term. Well, at least we've gone from "stupid" to "Coward" to "Dumbass" you know, like in a 12 year-old name calling exercise.

[ceremonyforafatlip]

Sorry, but being an entertainment writer is as worthless a contribution to society as there is. I would compare them to crack-whores but that would be an insult to crack-whores.

[ceremonyforafatlip]

Fair value is not a moral judgement it is an economic one dumbass. Fair = market price, not "what I feel I should get". You desperately need an econ course.

[Jarrow]

What? Did you say "(Writers)...expect to receive more than fair compensation...?" But you said "The concept of unfair has no meaning." Well if unfair has no meaning, surely it follows that fair doesn't either. Hmm, Got Hypocrisy? As for making 'you' the topic rather than the situation. When you post comments that call people 'stupid' 'cowards' etc. you invite others to scrutinize you. If you can't bear your hypocrisy, get out of the kitchen.

[Jarrow]

Didn't I just tell you that that is what many of the Writers are doing?

[ceremonyforafatlip]

Yes, there is a much better way. Quit and start your own production company and compete directly with the studios instead of begging for scraps like a dog.

[Jarrow]

Yes, and Studios who negotiate in 'good faith' are likely not to encounter any disruption in production. But you suffer from the same misunderstanding as those who think a 'quality' product is of superior construction. People of 'character' can be people of very questionable character.

[ceremonyforafatlip]

Writing is not work. Patrolling the streets of Bagdad is work. Shoveling pig shit all day for two dollars is work. Being a cop is work. Being paid to write is like being paid to engage in your favorite hobby. These people spend so much time inventing "wacky" scenarios they start believing their own stories. The West Wing wasn't a documentary, Martin Sheen wasn't really the president.