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Writer's strike
April 18, 2023 at 11:25 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2023 at 11:26 am by Fake Messiah.)
So apparently a new writer's strike is looming. It will probably start on Monday if they don't settle things. The last strike was in 2007 and back then I actually did watch some shows and was actually annoyed by it somewhat. But today it's like meh. I don't even watch any ongoing shows. And maybe a break is a good thing because there are already so many TV shows that people may use the break to discover those that are already made. Or not. It seems that unlike in 2007 there are much fewer people watching TV and more into spending time on social media.
So that is my opinion. What is yours?
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RE: Writer's strike
April 18, 2023 at 12:09 pm
TV... is it still a thing?
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RE: Writer's strike
April 18, 2023 at 12:19 pm
Unless I am binge watching a series, I don't really watch TV much. True crime plays a lot to make noise in the house but I don't watch TV dramas or sitcoms such as are shown on the regular networks.
With the roughly eight gazillion things I can stream, I doubt the strike will even be noticed around here.
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RE: Writer's strike
April 18, 2023 at 12:26 pm
I won't notice a thing, I don't watch broadcast TV at all, and I have more than enough new-to-me content in streaming services to keep me entertained for the small amount of time I spent in front of the TV
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RE: Writer's strike
May 2, 2023 at 1:34 am
For viewers, the most immediate effect will be felt on talk and sketch shows. Late night shows like “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” will likely go dark immediately. Reality series and some international shows, which are not covered by the guild, will be aired in heavy rotation.
It would take a long strike before there is a slowdown in the arrival of new TV shows and movies, because the production process for them can take months or more than a year.
A prolonged production shutdown could also prove damaging to local economies, particularly the workers who help support productions, such as drivers, costume dry cleaners, caterers, set carpenters and lumber yard workers. When the writers last went on strike, for 100 days in 2007, the Los Angeles economy lost an estimated $2.1 billion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/busin...trike.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Writer's strike
July 18, 2023 at 8:04 pm
Couldn't care any less, broadcast content is all garbage. Now the actors are on strike? F every single one of them.
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RE: Writer's strike
July 18, 2023 at 8:21 pm
(July 18, 2023 at 8:04 pm)MR. Macabre 666 Wrote: Couldn't care any less, broadcast content is all garbage. Now the actors are on strike? F every single one of them.
So, no change then?
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RE: Writer's strike
July 19, 2023 at 3:27 am
(July 18, 2023 at 8:04 pm)MR. Macabre 666 Wrote: Couldn't care any less, broadcast content is all garbage. Now the actors are on strike? F every single one of them.
You don’t think actors should strike?
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RE: Writer's strike
September 3, 2023 at 11:21 am
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RE: Writer's strike
September 15, 2023 at 1:57 pm
This has been going on for a long time now. Each side is trying to starve the other. Is there any other word but war to describe it?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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