I Stand With The WGA

There is not a single excuse for C-Suite executives to rake in millions upon millions and then not offer a fair contract to the writers that helped put them in this position. I stood with the WGA during the 2007-08 strike and I stand with them today. For more on why the strike is happening, I wrote a bit about it last night.

Streaming changed the game during the pandemic and the studios don't want to pay fairly. That's why none of the late shows are new for the rest of the week. That's why the studios and broadcast nets will be forced to put on reality crap when they run out of scripted series. That's why greenlit films will be forced into production with an unpolished script (see Quantum of Solace and Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen).

The last strike was 100 days long. I don’t expect this to be a short one. That is, unless the studios realize how harmful another work stoppage will be for the industry. But again, the writers are in the right here. All the WGA wants is a fair contract. This isn’t too much to ask for now, is it?