{"id":198483,"date":"2007-11-05T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/05\/hollywood-writers-strike\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T04:20:00","slug":"hollywood-writers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/05\/hollywood-writers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Writers Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that there are doubtless a lot of people who think that they shouldn&#8217;t even <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">be<\/span> in a union, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/11\/hollywood_writers_begin_strike.php\">or strike<\/a>, but half of these guy&#8217;s income is residuals, and the studios are proposing <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">nothing<\/span> as an amount.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that the writers should be given a cut of revenues regardless of channel, and there is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">no risk<\/span> if they get a percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that the studios have never, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">ever<\/span>, taken a risk on new media.  It&#8217;s always been someone else shelling out to the for the privilege of seeing if a media will fly or sink.  There is no reason for the studios to freeze these guys out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that there are doubtless a lot of people who think that they shouldn&#8217;t even be in a union, or strike, but half of these guy&#8217;s income is residuals, and the studios are proposing nothing as an amount. The fact is that the writers should be given a cut of revenues regardless of channel, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023,1064,1025,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor","category-media","category-technology","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}