How to say "We have no leverage at all in our strike and are all going to get fired" without saying it.
I fully agree that a few increasingly big media companies is an issue. But, people have been saying that for years now and where was the WGA (and SAG) then? Actively supporting those companies because they approved of the company's messaging. And the groups who have been trying to create alternatives, are the WGA and SAG going to join them? No way.
That said, it would be very easy for the WGA and SAG to bust up this situation right now, if they actually wanted to do some work. They have basically everyone in Hollywood short of the producers in those unions. You want to show how unnecessary and overburdening the companies are? Go make something amazing on your own to rub in the face of Disney, Netflix, etc. Except you won't, because that's too much work and because you are all are as big if not a bigger problem than the companies because you insist everything follows your crappy message.
Literally all one of these wealthy virtue-signaling actors has to do is get a group of other virtue-signaling actors together and start their own studio, promising better conditions or pay for writers. The streaming giants are not going to keep you off their platforms. It's not like you're a conservative Christian white male Republican or anything. You'll be fine.
Unions are in the rent-seeking business, not the creative business. They don't know how to form their own studio, only how to parasitically feed off of one.
Released on Thursday, the report from the WGA West, titled “The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon, and Netflix Will Take Over Media,” said that studios have been engaging in “anti-competitive practices” by “abusing their dominance to further disadvantage competitors, raise prices for consumers, and push down wages for the creative workforce.”
“Without intervention, these conglomerates will seize control of the media landscape and the streaming era’s advances for creativity and choice will be lost. These new gatekeepers have amassed market power through mergers and other anti-competitive practices, offering an alarming window into the future of media,” the report said.
WGA West Research & Public Policy Director Laura Blum-Smith said that studios have essentially consolidated the business to a select few companies, which has depressed writers’ wages and created poor working conditions.
“Writers being forced to strike in this climate should come as a surprise to no one,” said Blum-Smith. “We’re transitioning from a period of rapid investment and competition that brought about new and diverse content to a monopolistic model that will concentrate control over entertainment programming in the hands of just a few large and powerful corporations. For writers, that means fewer buyers for their work, employers who exert more leverage in individual deal negotiations, and depressed pay and working conditions.”
How to say "We have no leverage at all in our strike and are all going to get fired" without saying it.
I fully agree that a few increasingly big media companies is an issue. But, people have been saying that for years now and where was the WGA (and SAG) then? Actively supporting those companies because they approved of the company's messaging. And the groups who have been trying to create alternatives, are the WGA and SAG going to join them? No way.
That said, it would be very easy for the WGA and SAG to bust up this situation right now, if they actually wanted to do some work. They have basically everyone in Hollywood short of the producers in those unions. You want to show how unnecessary and overburdening the companies are? Go make something amazing on your own to rub in the face of Disney, Netflix, etc. Except you won't, because that's too much work and because you are all are as big if not a bigger problem than the companies because you insist everything follows your crappy message.
Literally all one of these wealthy virtue-signaling actors has to do is get a group of other virtue-signaling actors together and start their own studio, promising better conditions or pay for writers. The streaming giants are not going to keep you off their platforms. It's not like you're a conservative Christian white male Republican or anything. You'll be fine.
Unions are in the rent-seeking business, not the creative business. They don't know how to form their own studio, only how to parasitically feed off of one.
Wasn't that what United Artists started out as?
Says the monopoly that spans all three?
Words are magic spells.
The left eating its own. How amusing.
Just because they lost their comfy seat at the council. Not one of them complained when Disney was shoving leftist propaganda down the public's throat
Isn't that the QI host?