Yes, totally. There is no entertainment industry without those who write the shows. Writers should be among those who reap the rewards. They should not be nickled and dimed by Hollywood executives whose business model allows them to legally exploit. Solidarity with writers💙
Adam Conover @adamconover
4 May 2023
Wanna help the strike effort? Go to EntertainmentCommunityFund.o… and make a donation to the Film & Television professionals being affected!

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The Babylon Bee
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6 May 2023
Nation Surprised To Find Out Late-Night TV Actually Had Writers buff.ly/3VtsO5h
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As illustrated in the 1992 movie, the whole project of the corporate Producers is to get rid of the Writers. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pl…]
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That's not what the syndicates that influenced our laws believed, they say it's the person on camera, everyone else is just unimportant labor. "They" professed a lot of BS & got it codified into law so it would be they way they wanted things to be. "The People" are nothing.
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Writers are no different from the people that work at ... Starbucks ... or ... Amazon ... they deserve to be paid a living wage for their work ... meanwhile ... the Corporations that Own this Content ... are making Billions Every Year in Profits!
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And what of the way Biden treated striking railroad workers?
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wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05…

TV and film corporations use US writers strike to threaten mass firings

The major studios reportedly sent threatening letters to showrunners and executive producers demanding they continue to work, as thousands of striking writers and their supporters continued to picket...

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Solidarity with all writers except for those who wrote the last Star Wars trilogy
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The writing makes or breaks the shows. Nowadays acting and visual effects are all so good that the only thing that really matters is the writing.
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Fuck Hollywood. Sorry bout it.
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chatGPT will solve this problem. In 20 seconds get all the late night Trump jokes you could ever want.
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