The writers strike is an ongoing bane of many peoples existence, a relaxing week night of Jon Stewart, or a bad sitcom, or chugging beer and screaming at Jack Bauer to ‘Kill ‘EM!’ has been reduced to beer chugging and screaming at passers by to ‘Kill ‘em!’ This lack of entertainment chipping away at our sanity can be attributed to a group of underpaid, angry writers that have been refusing to glue us to our screens since November. The writers guild and all its members feel that they are not getting adequate recognition for their work that is posted online, from which the studios reap all the benefits. It sounds very simple.
Hollywood has a long history of monopolizing and making lots of money from the sweat of creative people. So its not a surprise that a few are again fighting back. And to someone that watches Entourage and feels like they have some sort of idea of the shallowness of the industry, it seems that it is a simple case of the man keeping down the little guys. However, its been going on for awhile now, the studios are losing vast quantities of money, and the people at the bottom are unsure of job security, so it must be more than that. If not, someone make the studios sign something because my neighbors are getting angry.
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