'A Hole in the World'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I wish I could help in some way. I feel an odd solidarity. I think that's why the NYT hit piece was so irritating to me.
Maybe the writer was just pissy that all his content is online and he's getting paid the same.
I think. Maybe someone should ask.
I was with some people tonight who just "didn't get" the strike. They kept saying "they've been paid once, why do they care". When I pointed out that everybody else gets paid for every time the medium is broadcast, they were very confused.
...and now I am educated. Very cool stuff indeed. I just wish that there was something I could do from here.
I think that posted youtube link says it about as well as can be.
Why aren't the writers asking for more?
That's a good video. I love that it is being distributed over the internet. Kinda helps make the point.
I'm sorry if my fly-by post caused a kerfuffle, Kat and Fay. I think ita best summed up why they used teachers as a comparison, and Tim best summed up why they shouldn't've.
Without context though, it doesn't mean much. (Because numbers? Are tricksy things which can be bent to the will of any evil doer.) I searched but I couldn't find the article again (Curse my tendanacies to both follow links willy and nilly and to clear my cached history!)
I don't think I've really grasped the general ignorance on display on line before. I guess most of my reading has been fandom based. Or fact based. Or I just haven't cared about the issue at hand. Now that it comes down to debate... Man, the internets are a scary scary place, and people are amazingly selfish beasties (who really, really, don't deserve clever writing on their televisions.)
I can just imagine when The Office returns, the breaking a story meeting for the next episode. Let's call this one Promotional Material..
Actually, I really liked seeing the actor-writer-producers 'out of character'. I keep forgetting that 'Toby' is also a hyphenate. It makes me feel less bad for him when Michael picks on him so much and so unfairly.
My friend Chris Bird has put together a pretty exhaustive overview of the strike, why it matters and what various writers have said about it. The contrary opinion in the comments section is pretty good, too.