TV Strike

I didn't post yesterday. Oh well, game over.

Can we talk about the TV writers' strike, though? There are maybe 4 or 5 TV shows that I like to watch during the year. Two of them are Lost and The Office. Both shows are affected by the recent hollywood writers' strike. After the few already taped episodes of the office air, they will show reruns until the strike ends. The premiere of Lost, originally set for January of 2008, will be pushed back indefinitely.

Guess what!

THERE'S PLENTY OF FUCKING MONEY TO GO AROUND YOU GREEDY CORPORATE COCKSUCKERS!

The problem is, nobody will stop watching TV as a result of the strike. People will watch the shitty last-minute reality shows and re-runs they show, and clap their hands with delight while they bask in the glowing warmth of TV's warming glow. Media companies can sit back with their hands folded neatly in their laps and just wait - because they're not going to lose much money as a result. If they were, the strike would end quickly and we would hear nothing about it.

Give the writers their fair share. Seriously. TV shows don't exist without writers, and they get paid beans for shows you make millions of dollars per episode on. The last agreement you made was in 1988; it's not farfetched to say that things in the media world have changed a bit in the last 19 years. So, strike an agreement about new media that is fair. You will still make plenty of money after you give the writers just a small portion of what they deserve. Shaving just a couple of percentage points off isn't going to destroy your quarterly earnings, and won't prevent your executives from taking home far more money than they've ever earned with every single paycheck.

Absolutely disgusting. Leave your TVs off, don't let these assholes win like they always do.