Film and TV writers are striking. Hear how this affects you
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2023
- More than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are set to go on strike for the first time since 2007. The move could bring an immediate halt to the production of many television shows and possibly delay the start of new seasons. #CNN #News
This is the problem almost EVERY worker in America is facing now. Contributing to the wealth of a company while the CEOs hoard all the profits.
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FACTS: We need more class awareness in this country
@@TheGozeraye Yes. When people are choosing poverty and free time over poverty and a 40+ hr/wk job, it's time to reevaluate our system. We might as well be a third world country. I hate to say that about my home and a nation I love. My mother said people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but when you can't afford boots...
There was a stat I remember from the 2008 GFC that mentioned CEOS back in 1970s were making 15 times the wage of the lowest paid workers in their company, and in 2008 it was 240 times the amount - I am pretty sure the lowest paid individuals at Time Warner aren't getting paid $1m each, so you can only imagine the CEO is paid like more than 2,500x the amount of the regular employ... Gotta ask yourself, is that one man doing the same work as 2,500+ other people?
@@AnthonyCJW Thank you. My parents were both in management. Sometimes CEOs. They had ways to explain their contributions and I agree there were many that brought great savings and great profits. They were sometimes doubling profit or drastically reducing costs, but there were always people on the floor making those changes happen, navigating the problems, and making it work. The people who have the ideas don't implement them. I respect my parents. They got involved and helped implement. But when I worked in the industry I saw the reality for the people on the floor. I have PTSD from what I saw on the floor. The CEOs don't care about that. It's too far away. Like a general sending a new recruit to the front line.
its so weird to think back that the dude who used to be on college humor is now talking on CNN about the rights of writers, great on Adam
Those OG college humor people are all super talented. Siobhan Thompson writes for Rick and Morty.
i mean, Cody Johnston is at Some More News ranting and raving about the evils of capitalism these days. Both Cracked and College Humor of the 10’s gave us some great lefties in the 20’s 😂
Dan Gurewitch and Owen Parsons have been writers for Last Week Tonight for years now.
A writers strike. He ruins everything.
Adam has been constantly getting clowned on when it comes to fact checkers on the left and the right when it comes to accuracy of his show. He also has a tendency to be a little weird and overzealous about people on the left. Almost as if he’s getting some sort of endorsement from them.
This needs to happen not only in writing.
In everything medical professionals, police, construction, let the robots have it all
@@alejandrososa3168 I'm talking protecting humans from A.I.
Imagine if it happened everywhere we would have them by the balls
Visual/CGI artists need to do this as well. They are seriously overworked and underpayed
@@alejandrososa3168 You think AI can physically construct a building. Complete with electricity, A/C systems, plumbing, fire sprinklers, etc at any point even close to the near future??? All with the client's personal style and preferences in mind?You don't have a very physical job do you?......
You guys could just make Adam a resident ruiner at CNN. If he did a weekly segment, I'd watch it every time!
Adam fixes everything?
Adam has a YT channel and his videos about Billionaires are awesome. He is able to explain to literally everyone social injustices and how we are exploited.
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@@JadedMaxI remember his ai isn’t going to get you video 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Adam is too intelligent for the CNN hosts.
Lol what? What are you talking about? He just called out the CEO of the parent company for CNN. What youre proposing makes no sense when theyre at odds with one another.
Again, this is about corporate greed. They don’t want to pay the people that actually do the work. I will miss the late night shows but I have plenty of relationships and hobbies to fill my time. Good luck writers! Get enough to support your families and live a comfortable life.
replace media managers with nice people.
"LEARN TO CODE"!
Democrats are gonna do what they do.
@@seanmccartney5177 LEARN TO STFU
Is It greed if they don’t wanna pay for a Velma season 2
There would be no shows without the writers..The big boys are getting rich on the talent and hard work of the little guys....
Yeah, that's pretty much every corporation. Writers are now feeling the woes of your typical everyday american. Sure, we don't want to pay the guy who fills pot holes, but we will be the first to complain when we blow a tire, what are taxes going too? Be ready for mundane BS TV, and people will be the first to ask what is are cable bill , streaming cost, or whatever going too? Someone else's pocket, that's where.
"The big boys are getting richer on the hard work of the little guys" --> welcome to capitalism.......
Calling this, 'talent' is like putting perfume on a pig.
Oh no not that...........
@@Cocpain If there is mundane tv; it won't be due to the large pool of writing talent to pick from. It'll be the CEO's thinking people don't care about good art.
I hope the writers win these war, it is time that they earn the rightful place in the industry because without them, all those entertainment content we love wouldn’t be possible.
They are writing history with the movies we go see, those demands are reasonable.
Movies have been terrible the past three years - they're overpaid
@@kennethsnodgrass2607 yeah because they only give them a certain amount of time or they just rush them to produce crap, so it ain’t really their fault.
Write an 10 amazing stories in 3 days and with your boss breathing down your back to include crap that makes the story worse and then we will talk
Chat GPT says hi, low IQ work is going to be replaced real soon
Being a story artist in the industry working for a top studio in Hollywood, I can tell you Adam is absolutely right and we are not paid even half of what we're worth for something the entire world watches on these big platforms. Sometimes we overwork overtime without pay because it is simply expected as people without jobs are dying to break in if you don't want to do the job. It's a terrible time.
A.i=Job lost
What? The writing quality has never been worse.
@@Jose04537and this has nothing to do with the quality writing. Even if the writing was at it’s peak, they still would be underpaid just the same. Do you think The Dark Knight’s writer was well paid? Lol
My daughter is in animation and these are the same issues they face. Freelance instead of staffing, the threat of AI. You can’t build a life let alone a career. I hope this sets a pattern for the rest of the industry.
Ya abomination is hell, it is a lot better than in Asia, but it is still really bad here.
@Gill Munchen *Is that so.....* 🐴
@Gill Munchen I'm sorry to hear that, I've heard horses can be more expensive than kids...hopefully they have strong ankles 😂😂
Tell her to get a real job
Writing for TV isn’t a career. It’s a job. Tell her to get another one.
Good to see these creators taking a stand against unfair business practices and shrinking wages. Now, if we can just get the rest of the workforce to follow their example, we can actually stand a chance at dealing with this new depression we find ourselves in. Everyone deserves to be making more money - no matter what line of work you're in.
Facts. Corporations want to hold the bag so much for themselves.
Joe Potato destroyed the best American economy on record.
the people of this nation need the script writers of Homowood to guide us into economic prosperity
Why more money. People don't watch a lot of these shows be abuse they are so woke. I haven't watched TV for years and don't miss it.
@@JackassJoePotato LOL, you are hilarious, you should be an under payed comedy writer, because your jokes will only hit with a certain demo.
They deserve whatever they are asking for. I'm glad they are standing up for themselves. It is ridiculous that show executives think they are more valuable that the creators of their products.
May they all sink to the bottom of the ocean... nothing but garbage on TV anymore. "Operation Mockingbird".
"LEARN TO CODE"!
They deserve nothing…
This is how it works in all industries. The labor of workers is who make the rich people rich!
@@kathydb613 you're full of crap
Keep striking writers!! You deserve equitable pay and benefits!
Typical. The top guys of the company take in the millions/billions in profit, but are so greedy they'd rather everyone else suffer than treat others as human, as fairly as they should.
the federal government should sue the AMPTP to stop the strike.
@@SamSitar striking rights are workers rights. They’re the reason overtime and weekends even exist. Gtfo
@@SamSitar The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest, and strikes are protest. not allowing the people to strike/protest is how you begin to end up with a totalitarian state. if the federal government steps in to stop this strike, or any protest, its is incredibly undemocratic and will only lead to more issues in the long run.
@@butchmikey exactly!
God, I still can’t believe biden’s admin stopped the railroad worker’s recent strike.
Writers are the unsung heroes of entertainment. Whether it be movies, films, music or video games.
LOL! Yeah, ok, striker.
@@xandercruz900 what the flying uck does that add to the conversation?
@@xTerminatorAndy The truth. A bunch of you clowns are just finding these stories and posting from your little picket line, pretending to be "average people" that "want to stand in solidarity with our blessed 'hero' TV writers".
LOL! You all aint slick.
No bud light !
Editors are the unsung heroes. Everybody talks about the writers
Adam Conover hits the nail on the head. CEOs shouldn't be making billions of dollars off of what, at the end of the day, is the product of the writers' work. The writers deserve everything they're asking for, and more.
The writing quality is atrocious lately and the box office shows it.
It's gonna suck not having my late shows but I stand with the writers guild , shame on the CEO's and their absolutely gross salaries. Entertainment is a huge part of America 🇺🇸
You stand by 90% worthless chaff who make horrible bs for shows that doesn't air 90% of the crap they even get into the show?
All that needs to be done is fire 50% of the writers
Damn, the networks are going HARD trying to get us pissed at the writers instead of the fat cats who refuse to fairly compensate them.
This is how corporate Media works. They always protect the rich.
Manufacturing consent and protecting capital is ALL corporate media’s core business model
Collective bargaining is the only power the average folk will ever have against greedy corporations. Unions are what got us the weekend, the 40-hour work week, overtime, and ended child labor. We owe the protections we have to them whether you've been in one or not.
I'm proud to say I'm currently applying for the same line of work as many generations of men in my family with the IUOE International Union of Operating Engineers. They take care of their people. Once a journeyman, you'll take home $30+ an hour with straight pay being in the $60+ an hour range. $8.50 per hour contributed to pension. $9.50 an hour contributed for healthcare. Union dues come out as well. And after all of that, you're still making $72k per standard work year if you work the 2,080 hours with no overtime. Except construction works loads of overtime and is somewhat seasonal. So you'll make more, and then have times laid off where you get a break and draw unemployment while the union hall looks for work FOR YOU. And they pay you to go through the apprenticeship as well with a "earn while you learn" model.
Find me anything besides a union that is going to do all that for you while all you need is a high school diploma. You can't. Unions are the way if you want to be confident you'll be taken care of as a human.
1926: Henry Ford introduced 40-hour work weeks with five working days with no cut in wages after he discovered that working 48-hour work weeks yielded only a small increase in productivity that lasted a short period of time. This discovery inspired other manufacturing companies to adopt the 40-hour work week. The unions had no part in the 40 hour work week
@@postone2821 Spreading partial truths is the same as lying. All Henry Ford did was make it more acceptable to actually implement a 40-hour work week. Unions had started fighting for it going back to the late 1800s, and some cities started passing laws in favor of it before 1926.
It wasn't until the Fair and Labor Standards Act of 1938 that it became law, and that's what made it mandatory for "white" jobs. I say that because they exempted jobs primarily held by black workers from most of these laws. In fact the concept of tipping workers originated from white employers not wanting to pay their black service workers wages, so they just left it up to customers to "tip" whatever they wanted.
@@postone2821 Unions are the reason Americans have a 40 hour work week.
In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions called for all workers to have eight-hour days. This was decades before Ford. Ford was one of the few companies that decided to implement a 40-hour work week. Ford popularized the 40 hour work week here in the US.
But Ford isn't the government. Unions continued to push, demonstrate, and strike and eventually the Fair Labor Standards Act, establishing a 40 hour work week for all US workers, was signed into law in 1938.
I guess all unions aren't created equal. At my union, we got paid less than the Amazon workers across the street. They took their fees out of my checks, and the boss (union member, I believe) still treated me poorly. Got out of there pretty quickly
@@brixan... They aren't there is a good history of corruption and ties to organized crime. Some are good unions, but that doesn't mean all are.
This is happening in every facet of the entertainment industry. Writers, Voice Actors, Animators, and even Manga Artists are treated like garbage while large corporations are reaping huge profits from their hard work. Talk about massive exploitation.
No one cares about your precious ''manga artists''. Also maybe if these writers actually wrote good material, they might get ordinary Americans their sympathy. Sorry but movies have sucked for a while in large part because of trash writing. They don't deserve any good deal.
If you are such a useless place filler that you can be replaced by anybody off the street maybe you shouldnt be a writer.
90% of writers should just be fired.
@@doomguy510 Actually, corporations aren't looking to replace people with people. But with AI. With AI advancing as it is, it's only a matter of time before they figure out how to do away with people altogether.
@@jirenthegray "actually"
Didn't read.
Cry more about your forgettable burger flipper tier entertainment.
@@doomguy510 “actually” deez nuts 🥜 lol 😂
I swear, Oligarchs and corporate sharks aren't gonna be satisfied till we're all dirt poor and our kids are slinging blades and arrows at one another for their amusement🙄
Hunger Games?
@@aspiringvoiceactor645 Somehow I don't think the oligarchs will like the ending as much as they did the "Poor people fighting" part
This is why they indoctrinate us with individualistic boot strap meritocracy mentality while they themselves practice class solidarity everyday
PAY WRITERS A STABLE FAIR WAGE, GREEDY CORPORATIONS! I will gladly watch Survivor and its many reruns for as long as it takes for the writers to get what they deserve. I stand with the writers!
Uhhhhhhh… survivor is a reality show and I don’t think it uses writers as much as say, scripted television shows like NCIS, law and order and other various ones.
That’s why it’s cheaper to make reality television shows than regular TV
Pay them 1/10th what they are getting now, and they will still be getting too much.
@@tompatchak8706 yeah that's sorta like buying from a company while its workers are striking in a way. Because you are incentivizing the studios to make more of the reality shows that don't need writers as much
@@kenlandon6130 yes I know, and that’s what happened the first time around in 2007. Just like a sudden this piece after the writers strike of 2007 reality shows took off.
I remember a few shows that I loved that got canceled because of it, the original law and order, life on Mars, Pushing Daisy’s and Life.
so watching shows like survivor makes the executives put much more crap like it out there
It’s always the people that do the work that make less money, while the executives take all the profit. THIS IS AMERICA!
Facts.
Welcome to the real world, pal.
What happens when you give corporations too much power
@@aspiringvoiceactor645 They tell the common folk to just "manage their money better" while they get massive parachutes if they get fired or have the government bail them out.
@@faaaduma6876 It's called feudalism/capitalism
Feudalism didn't end so well for the feudalists, especially in France
I'm delighted to see Adam on CNN - he should have a regular spot imo. 🙂
Lol what? What regular spot? He just called out the CEO of the parent company for CNN. There is no "regular spot" when theyre at odds with one another.
But Adam ruins everything!
No
Thank god Adam's here to spell it out for everybody. I know he made the joke that he's off the clock for this, but damn if I don't feel like he should be getting paid to educate the wider world on this stuff. It's criminal that these problems are so invisible to the public for the most part until someone it actually affects goes out of their way to teach and inform of real issues going on under everybody's noses. So many things are like that lately.
Stand strong, writers! Fight for fairness!
Ewwwwwwwwww please no more "reality" tv crap!!!!
I agree I can't stand any reality shows either
They are not the only ones being underpaid. What about the SAG-AFTRA actors who work as background, they are consistently taken for granted and abused by productions.
Nobody forces anyone to be in the entertainment industry.
@@MH_6160 Bootlicker. Does anyone force you to lick boots of rich CEOs, or do you do that for free?
@Todd Nishimoto This is true in almost all industries. You saying get another job instead of pay people what their worth is a lazy argument!
I agree. They should hire at least 7 extra background actors for each one they need and let them sit in holding and text all day to ensure they can have a fair wage.
I’m against corporate greed and worker exploitation… but I’m also against terrible storytelling and bad writing in modern western entertainment so this is a win-win for me.
It’s also like, if you pay your writers and give them fair treatment, that’s how you get good content for your platform. When the writer has the, as Adam mentions, a writer’s room where they can sit, collaborate, and really focus as well as have the time that’s more then a week or a day, that’s how you will get stories that are well thought out and not cheaply made. You have to pay for the quality and that’s how you get the streaming service or show people keep coming back to. These companies have to remember the human and emotion that goes into art as well as knowing you have to spend money, in paying your employees and keeping them happy, to make money, aka stories that we can love and cherish.
Oh my goodness, I was looking for this comment.
Shows and movies have struggled, and I’ve always wondered why it was. But it was because of the decline in the writers rooms.
Cap, paying writers more won't stop Hollywood from creating woke films that don't break the box office.
The consumer has to also be alright with waiting longer as well. In regards to music, it used to be the norm that artists would have a couple years between projects. Are you willing to give a show every month for a new episode, and 4 years between seasons if it came to that?
"Here is how it affects you" It does not affect you or anyone you know!
Maybe not directly but if we have favorite shows that have new seasons going on hold because of this then it affects us indirectly
Given the abuse I suffered from their forced politics into my movies, they can strike forever. Their views don't represent mines so their strike doesn't affect me. Hollywood is a hivemind of far-left rhetoric to the point I just stopped going to the movies unless its John Wick or Super Mario Bros movie. Those 2 were just good times.
If they want to disavow woke Hollywood, or explain why I'm constantly being preached at, to help understand this insane push from media, ill be open to that. Is Hollywood studios taking the ESG money?
When you've been told for DECADES, that an English major or liberal arts degree is worthless and everyone should "learn to code," yeah, we're gonna end up with a society that thinks what writers do is easy and shouldn't be valued and AI is the solution. It's all connected!
We're gonna end up with a society that's very comfortable looking at writers and artists as fools who picked a foolish career who deserve whatever pennies they get.
People are STUNNED that writers don't want AI to replace them and that we'd strike over it. That we should somehow be grateful that tech and the free market smiled upon us.
Machines can't do what people do. The key to art isn't an algorithm. It's people, creativity, and stability.
I remember all the disastrous writing that ensued for a while bunch of shows when the 2007 writers' strike happened, because the companies thought they could just get randos to fill in. A lot of shows turned to sh!t really fast, and serials we're difficult for the original writers to salvage when they returned if the show was even still on air. If anyone remembers the tornado on _Desperate Housewives,_ well it was employed by the original writers to reset things and clean up the huge mess that had been created in their absence. I hope Hollywood sorts things out fast, because I certainly won't be watching the calamity that ensues while the writers are on strike.
so we have had randos writing for the past 16 years and that is why writing is shid, so we just need to fire 99% of the current writers?
@@doomguy510 can you read? That's not what OP said at all.
@@fangirl3086 You are absolutely the slowest CNN intern ive met yet.
@@fangirl3086 He knows. You'll always have the wannabe oligarchs siding with these ghouls.
Most people are one bad accident away from poverty but are arrogant about their ignorance.
Ironic that corporations are against writers they employ coming into the office and want them to work remotely, but in other cases are insistent on employees coming into the office...
So glad Adam Connover is the face of this strike. He’s just the right person to keep everyone united and deliver the message clearly and firmly.
Why is Adam disrespecting our corporate overlords? They give us the entertainment we love and all they ask for is $250,000,000 and the ability to deny their workers a stable life.
It’s a shame they couldn’t come to an agreement, but everyone has the right to strike, so ultimately I support the writers.
I hate reality TV. Ugh.
So you're only concerned about how this affects you... sad!
The Apprentice was fire.
Me too, but don’t do Mythbusters like that
Go writers! Without you the world goes silent.
Silence is golden.
Strange......because every day CZcams gets days worth of videos uploaded. And British TV (as well as other nations) are still a thing.
Not that bad..
If only they were
They can always make solar panels
CEO are overpaid.
Actors and actresses are overpaid.
Writers are the one that make the show a reality because of there Ideas
As content creators Writer deserve a clear cut of the cake.
The Boss's will always cry poverty
Until their feet are in the fire (metaphorically)
Looks like it may be re-runs for a while Go Writers !
we need new media bosses that are nice.
Will things ever change if it's just metaphorically?
@@SamSitar No bosses, no gods, no masters
Yup. You're not *entitled* to the contents of the artist's mind. Gotta pay for it. I fully support the strike. But I am able to read subtitles in my own language, so K-dramas, here I come. *Thousands* of quality hours ahead of me. So glad I stayed awake in school and learned to read.
Anime and K-Dramas till this blows over
Trust me its gonna be spike in anime over the summer garenteed. Thats the thing Japanese TV shows have always been good.
This is why we need strong unions across all workplaces. Power to the writers.
Legit get a bit depressed when the late night shows are on a break. Props to the workers that keep that train running, and that factory running. These are staples in people's lives. Hope you get what you need.
You are not a human, you are an NPC who needs his 5 minutes of hate.
How much do the executives make?! The dudes at the top? Millions of dollars a year each? How is any salary with “compensations” that much ever? Their bonuses could easily be dispersed.
So could their "work" frankly
They will not be missed.
They seem to have a posting effect on you.
You took the words out of my mouth
All companies want is gig employees instead of full time employees.
All these people worried about "AI" taking over creative careers like writing & art seems like they're wasting their time. Programmers can't even get computers to drive a car without killing people yet, and somehow people think computers will be able to create original ideas out of thin air.
Good! I hope they get what they're asking for. It'll give us time to finally finish our backlog of shows.
*Television in his century has finally become the 'vast wasteland' that was predicted in the last century!*
minimum wage should have been $27 an hr by now, thx Reagan
I'll like to thank him too! Like your no-skill having arse should get paid 27 dollars an hour to work part-time at a mall store. Dude, please!
Sounds like the writers are on the right side of the argument !
NetflixExample:"If the company could afford to spend $166 million on executive compensation last year, it can afford to pay the estimated $68 million per year that writers are asking for in contract improvements and put an end to the disruptive strike."
This is effecting every job market. As a teacher, it sounds exactly the same. But luckily our unions have helped prevent that, maybe. I'm not familiar with the history of the AFT. (American Federation of Teachers.) But I pay my dues for now.
Paying 100 bucks a paycheck to gain a career of reliable work is a great exchange.
I left tech support because I saw the writing on the wall that those types of customer facing tech support jobs will go away and be replaced by software automated systems, self service systems and AI.
And that happened mostly. Call centers are always changing so I can't be certain.
The Art market is WILD. There is absolutely no rhyme of reason to any of it and I blame similar causes. Large influential artists make claims or produce artwork that changes the market and everyone runs towards it.
This job market is fucking crazy. Thank God I'm a teacher, now if you'd pardon me I have a date with a bullet proof vest and some Brazilian Jujitsu training.
Good for them! I hope they get everything they ask for. My whole life has been made better due to writers making me laugh, cry, feel entertained, of course they deserve everything they are asking for.
More than 90% of the Actors work for free or less than the minimum wage. They really need to focus on them as well!!!!!
Pay your worker fairly. End of story. PAY YOUR WRITERS 📝
Give the writers what they want because they deserve it. Good writing is the foundation of a quality TV show or movie. Even talented actors can fall flat if the writing is lame. Respect the writers!
Amen! 👍🏼🙏🏼
Key word in this comment "Quality" ...................... "LEARN TO CODE"!
@@seanmccartney5177 learn not to be a picky little twerp.
@@seanmccartney5177 Not everyone licks boots the way you do
@@seanmccartney5177 Exactly! Most shows are garbage.
Good luck to them. Honestly, a WGA strike has never affected me because the quality of their work is low enough that I don't watch anything they write.
Fake artiste all of them con man.
do you watch fox socalled news? then you will be affected. Everything on fox is made-up. Also you're telling me you don't watch any streams, or play games, or read books or podcasts?
These are perfectly reasonable demands considering the grotesque salaries that actors receive.
We need more unions in the US so workers can demand equity in every industry. They have been successfully neutralized in a lot of industries that used to have strong unions & have been prevented from forming in businesses with large monopolies. Without unions, workers can't sustainably strike since workers are usually paid just at or under cost of living (e.g have multiple underpaid jobs). The whole point of unions is to give workers protection by each worker paying a small percentage to the union per paycheck so the union rep can demand better conditions and compensation for the workers, under threat of strike. Workers are paid some percentage of whatever they were making during the strike by the union, sometimes full salary & when the union is strong, the employer can't fire anyone for striking. Unions also provide protection from being fired for medical reasons and generally ensure excellent insurance coverage. I'm always amazed how thoroughly some people working in industries that would benefit from unions have bought into propaganda from employers that depicts unions as *anti* worker, to the point that they don't actually know what unions are or how much they actually stand to benefit from them
Goddamit, Adam Connover is an underrated force. He should be the head of the WAG
I hope the writers will be able to make a deal very soon an Deal with Stability for their Families they deserve Contracts for the seasonal shows an PAY RAISES for the EXCEPTIONAL WORK they Do for the NETWORKS who make way more now Thanks to the TV an Streaming services they can Make STREAMING SERIES and TV SERIES but WRITERS DESERVE more STABILITY for their WORK!! NO MORE REALITY SHOWS!!
In 2 weeks they'll crawl back or be replaced by funny scabs
I hope they win this time because they sure as shit didn’t win the last strike in 2007.
Writers tell the stories of the day, the past, and dream about tomorrow.
All CEO's do is facilitate a place to promote their stuff, and just by doing that, they make more money than these dreamers and storytellers would make in a lifetime.
Damm right writers should be paid way more, and given more rights.
most film industry workers make less than the average American salary while working highly physical jobs, 12/14/16 hour days with little sleep, no job guarantee once a show ends etc. outdoors/long hours, high pressure scenarios. the entire industry deserves more
All the power to the writers in their plight and achieving all their goals!
It means we can all find ways to entertain ourselves for a change.
Like masturbating. No thanks.
You're missing the point. It's about thousands of workers not being able to pay rent or sometimes put food on the table. It's about the giant chasm between profits and wages. These writers need the support of audiences who want to see their work. If we all just brushed it off with the attitude that, hey there's other stuff to do or I'll just watch other shows, the situation would only get worse for them. It's important that demand stays high otherwise it'll be easier for these people pocketing millions of dollars in salary to argue that writers are not as essential as they truly are.
I agree. With all the crap that's being written for TV now days, there is nothing loose.
I hate how stations just talk about what shows we're going to miss. Those writers being treated right matter so much more
Finally a computer can make terrible, cultural marxist crap for free instead of me paying someone for it.
Hmm, 'cultural marxism' is literally a buzzword. A dogwhistler used by N-zis, dimwits and people
who dont know they themselves are one of the 2.
Adam Connover! Why not put his name in the title, CNN? You'd get so much more attention!
There's a huge problem with greed in this country...and it will come to a boiling point.
Oh please. The only "greed" are from overpaid hacks that think their low-rated garbage and box office bombs are deserving of a pay increase.
Nothing will happen until the old folks lose their benefits. They’re still the largest voting block and sitting happy because they’ll be gone once this house burns down.
Teachers all over the state need to do the same.
Fire all the writers and prove you guys are actual "talent" 💯
It would be nice to hear someone talking about the craft and crew members who have been deeply affected by these negotiations already. Production has come to a near standstill in anticipation of this strike in the months leading up to the negotiation deadlines. That means a lot of people who have worked “gig to gig” their whole careers have been out of work as a recession looms.
Blame the greedy executives who don't want to pay up so they can keep hauling in their huge salaries
Yeah... you're missing the point! Don't blame the writers, blame the greed and power at the top!
There are so many downstream effects here. Corporate greed is an issue, but I don't think striking during a recession and the coming AI societal transition is a good idea. The studios have so much content and this isn't 2007. Also, if the WGA wouldn't make insane demands like mandating 7 writers on staff and all that jazz, then maybe this would resolve more quickly. Oy vey.
@@kathydb613 thats literally what shes saying. you missed her point.
Eh, its not like they made anything good
Sorry Hollywood, it really does not affect me. Get over yourselves!
I can see where the production companies are going…AI for scripts and CGI. That’s why they don’t want to take AI off the table. The production companies don’t want AI tied up for a decade because of the Writer’s Union. And, how many good writers are worth tens of millions of dollars…or even hundreds of millions of dollars like the actors they’re writing for. One of my favorite shows comes to mind, Big Bang Theory…
"Writters and actors strikes, hear how it affects you!"
*Crikets sounds in the background...*
Wow, how misguided of you. Not only do you not udnerstand that the people who strike are also including the Guys who made the Things you DID LIKE, but also how basic and common-sense their demands are.
@@slevinchannel7589no what you don't understand is that these people are being replaceable by technology and most people don't care
It’s a vicious cycle….not “enough” money to pay workers, workers get fired, company saves money, more people out of jobs due to cutting cost, people not being able to buy or watch said products, company again doesn’t have “enough” money, more lay offs….rinse and repeat until implosion…😢
I loved 'Adam Ruins everything'. The writers have to do what they need to do. I remember when this happened in '07. I thought things were better. But geez. It's just gotten worse! Do what you have to writers!!💯
"LEARN TO CODE"!
A narcissist never affected me
please to elaborate
Writers don’t effect me . If electricians , plumbers , drivers , nurses , and doctors , police , fire , go on strike then that’s a bigger deal .
Get rid of SNL Jimmy Kimmel Stephen Colbert..ALL of Disney and about 80% of Netflix. That's a good start anyway 😅
Does that include the writers for news media outlets?
No. They are protected because what they write sway audiences to a political view.
You mean journalists? I'm pretty sure journalists write the news, not the same people who write Yellowstone.
Sure hope so
yes if it's fox news because all of their content is made up
@@thegenialdecepticon5244 Yes, we’re aware, it was a bit of a joke poking fun at mainstream news media and their relationship with facts and narratives.
The last writer's strike created reality TV. It won't make a difference.
I mean reality TV was everywhere in the 90s.
There's no such thing.
Doesn't affect me at all. Lots of great content available online that is not written in the US.
The kicker is that it is funnier, and more truthful than anything you will find here in America. And CNN wonders why sites like "black conservative patriot" get twice the views they get. The dude only has a cellphone and not six $100,000 cameras in a multimillion dollar corporate studio.
Companies trying to transform their organization to be "blitzkrieg uber" and "gig economy" based companies.
Good job, writers!
Thats the problem, they don't........
Thank god. All their work for the last few years has been mindless woke propaganda. They’re doing us a favor by giving us a pause from the incessant regurgitation of sequels and spinoffs. Maybe some actual storytelling will fill the void in the meantime.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
the strike is being led by the people who wrote velma, rings of power, multiverse of madness, she-hulk and the majority of the direct to disney+ shows. id rather they live on the streets than get 5 more years of that crap
I hope they eliminate the she hulk writing room dear god go on strike and never come back
You're the problem. Not everything is for everybody. But folks who like a show like She Hulk have a right to watch what they like. 🤷🏾♂️
How great would it be if the strike lasted for years
Why? Do you not care about people losing money to live?
It doesn’t affect any of us
Personally, the writers should out until they get all their demands met. I work in the industry and once your inside its wild how unsustainable of a job it can be unless you marry yourself to it.
However I truly can't stand this guy talking from the position as if HE himself is a pure writer and affected deeply by this. The guy lists himself as a Showrunner and EP on projects yet groups himself in the "We" category. Convenient for people like him to start refering to themselves as "we" when it finally bites "Them" in the ass. Why not interview the real day in and out writers
Considering the quality of writing lately, are they striking for lower pay ?
I believe you left out the "lack of" before the "quality".
It doesn’t affect me at all. No more crap ! I call that an improvement !, 😊😊😊😊
The strike is ok. Adam is way too annoying to be the face of this
Let the CEOs write.
Let the bankers build their own houses and make their own food.
Let the bureaucrats be the service providers.
Let's see how that goes.
The writers guild is realizing that they can be replaced with indi writers that deliver higher quality work in a shorter turn around time.
IT DOESN'T!
Thank You! First World Problems! We have WAY too much else going on, right now.