I think after a while, once the pressure has built a bit (from having to constantly improvise), the quality might drop a bit.

These millionaire crybabies make me sick. Fire them all, and find people who will work for what the studios are paying.

Writers. Are. NOT. All. ‘Millionaires’.

Reagan was the person who would gladly support human rights-violating dictators abroad, who would not think twice about torture, and who passed economics legislation to benefit the rich over the poor… sounds very similar to Saddam Hussein

Just to chime in, all politics aside, I seriously doubt that even most of them are millionaires. Perhaps a fraction within a fraction. Outliers on the graph. And I’m being very generous with that estimate, since I’ve never really ever encountered or heard of any millionaire writers. There very well may be some out there, but I bet that writing is not their only job description. And they certainly don’t represent anyone on a large scale.

Most are blue-collar, and are many are not reliably employed for years at a time in the same place in the way that many other careers are.

After doing research into the situation, its pretty clear to me that the writers have every reason to put their foot down. The Internet is not a “wild and unknown medium”. We all know it. Its the future. Its paying, and paying big, and there are videos of media conglomerates explicitly saying so, citing figures in the millions and billions.

Writers don’t get a dime of any of that, even when entire episodes are streamed online with commercials.

Youtube has some great videos that explain the situation. The Colbert Report and the Daily Show writers made their own stuff on there.

I despise far-right rants as much as I do far-left.

That said: Can’t wait for the strike to be over. Commenter Jason clearly doesn’t understand how much power the WGA has in LA. Any writer breaking the strike would suffer some serious future consequences.

Well, the final season of Alias was clearly brainstorming, and it didn’t even begin to cross the line into writing. And there wasn’t even a writer’s strike. So what the hell was the excuse for that final season?

I used to watch Letterman every night (Well 90% of the time anyway), and I always felt that some nights were strained, and some nights were good. Different batches of writers working different days? Or is it because of the news stories of the day are not very interesting?

With Letterman for example, I’ve seen him a few times say things like “Oh I know there’s a problem tonight!” and make general comments about the writing of material that didn’t get a big laugh.

So if the host of the show is criticising the writing, then why the hell has the show GOT HIS NAME IN THE TITLE? Why is it his show? What does he contribute? This isn’t aimed just at letterman, but all the shows with a name in the title. What do they do for the show other then present it? If they write material, then how does that affect the writer’s strike? If they do write material, are they in the union? If not, why not. If they are not in the union, then surely they can write as much as they like?

Don’t believe me? Believe the US Department of Labor:

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes273043.htm

They are hardly ‘millionaires’.

Again, Reagan knew what to do with crybabies. Fire em.

I’d say ‘the starting salary for writing is $50k’.

Then that’s that. No more strike, and some people that might appreciate their jobs more in hope of raises down the road.

Why would you hope for a raise ‘down the road’ when the people who would give you that raise are so happy to have you work for free?