WRITER SPEAKS OUT

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

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[wachipi11]

He is so awesome! Thats a great speach! (thats my dad!) GO DAD!!!!

[amazonbaby]

There's no TV or movies without a script.

All the writers are asking are a fair share of the ridiculous profits.

It's not fair that the studios make hundreds of millions of dollars and writers (and, if the studios have their way, actors and directors) get nothing.

[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.

[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]

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?

[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.

[Jarrow]

You're a regular psychic. Cowardly Writers ARE partnering with venture capitalists to start Internet "Networks" where instead of the 2.5% of revenue for broadcasts of their work, they'll get 50%! And the Cowardly networks ARE firing writers and producers by employing Force Majeure clauses. Your utopia is forming. So can you write something other than a less than 500 word comment, and for a living? You can write better than a 12 year-old, right? If you don't, does that make you a coward?

[Jarrow]

When someone offhandedly dismisses the work of others who work very hard, it's clear that they are not in this business. FYI, most poor writing decisions are a result of interference from Network Brass & Producers changing, homogenizing or simply putting their 'fingerprints' on the creative process. You can spout philosophy from the cheap seats until you're blue in the face, bucko, but but as Teddy Roosevelt stated, "The credit belongs to the man in the arena." And that, sir, is not you.

[Jarrow]

So if you're anti-union, anti-worker, does that make you pro-corporate abuse and pro-unfair compensation? Unions would never exist without horribly unfair business practices of management & corporations. I completely agree that they need to worry about the bottom line, but what they and you are missing is that, to paraphrase SOYLENT GREEN, "The bottom line is People!"

[Hastur83]

The problem is they aren't paid based on their value and the only way to persuade the big guys is to strike. Or perhaps you you know some other way? Or think that it's fair not to pay for the internet stuff.