While the rest of the world celebrates Labour Day (added the ‘u’ since it’s Un-Amerikan), we just go, meh. I think it’s very fitting though. Today the Writers Guild of America goes on strike and I’m behind them all the way. The greedy dickheads at the top are being their usual selfish selves as they’ve been nickel and diming the writers for the last 15 years via bundling, small rooms, paying minimum wage and finding ways to screw everyone out of their residuals. Last time, the battles were over what they were owed for DVDs. Sadly, those are now out of fashion and streaming is the new problem: writers are chained to one show at a time and the seasons are a third as long, so less money. The dicks at the top are also bringing up the threat of using AI to write shows. HA! It would be on par with the genius of Zaslav as he slowly kills HBO via cheap-ass Discovery reality shit. Meanwhile, his bloated salary alone would cover how much the WGA is asking for. If you look at his background, this asshole has never written anything but a check for his offspring’s tuition. Zaslav began as a lawyer and by 1989, he became an executive at NBC. From then on, he’s continued to fail upward like all privileged White assholes have for decades.
One writer made it clear why the 10,000 WGA members matter, but I’m paraphrasing:
- The Shield put FX on the map. It was created by a writer, Shawn Ryan.
- Breaking Bad put AMC on the map. It was created by a writer, Vince Gilligan.
- Abbott Elementary is a hit on ABC. It was created by a writer, Quinton Brunson.
- Quibi was a short-lived, $1.7 billion fiasco. It was created by a career executive who never wrote shit…Jeffrey Katzenberg.