Comments on: SAG president Alan Rosenberg talks writers strike

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By: Susan Elliott

Susan Elliott — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:47:54 +0000

Keep up the good work mate. Without stand-up folk like yourself and the support of your gorgeous wife Marj us artist’ would starve. Well done!

By: whatthefuk

whatthefuk — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:22:48 +0000

All you have to say is Alan looks sick. This one of the most important negotiations in many years that will change everthing. Wait as long as is takes, you deserve every penny.

By: Kok

Kok — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:08:15 +0000

“Excessive money, that a writer earns”??
1. You have to break the work of month (I am talking of Europe) down to $ per hour. And this ends up in Minimum Wage, more often than not.
2. How would a producer of a car, aka a factory worker, react, when he is told, that he does not get his wage for every car, that is sold via Internet?

By: ripley

ripley — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:06:15 +0000

All the people who are suffering (crew etc) because of the writers strike will benefit if the writers get the deal they are fighting for. Plus, when those people go to negotiate on their own contracts, which will surely happen, they know the writers will support them as well! don’t be fooled by the divisive language, it only helps the AMPTP divide and conquer their employees.
People are talking like the writers have more power and more money than the big corporations they are fighting! It’s simply not true. Blame the corporations for not negotiating with the writers and forcing them to stay out on strike.
The writers themselves are taking a huge hit on this, in order to show the corporations that they cannot treat their workers with impunity. A win on this will benefit all employees of these corporations.

By: SoCalScribe

SoCalScribe — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:59:54 +0000

The truth is, nobody wanted a strike except the AMPTP which gets to invoke Force Majeur to cancel a bunch of seemingly unprofitable deals and weaken all three talent guilds.
The AMPTP is getting a painful reminder that without writers, NOBODY else in this business would have a job because it all begins with the script.
As painful as an extended strike is, it’s important to remember that if the WGA, SAG and DGA accept bad deals simply to put everyone back to work now, it will cost everyone (writers, actors, directors and even IA members via their health/welfare/pension funds) a lot more in the long run.
If fair new media formulae aren’t established now, it will be damned near impossible to re-negotiate that three years from now with the next contracts. The guilds and the AMPTP both know it. That’s why everyone is fighting so hard to set the RIGHT precedent NOW so we won’t have to fight this battle again three years from now.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:36:29 +0000

Sorry, to clarify: the ‘producers’ don’t do much. Why do you think that all of the actors want a producing credit? The producers get the lions share of the residuals (far exceeding the actors, and vastly exceeding the writer’s share).

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:34:16 +0000

My only real comment is that if anyone out there puts ‘writers’ and ‘excessive money’ in the same sentence, they really are completely clueless. The writers make a tiny fraction of the producers’ pay, and frankly, don’t do much. The show would go on without the producers, but not without the writers (as we’ve just seen). Shouldn’t there be a fairer distribution of the money generated? TV writers get shafted compared to book writers, for instance.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:04:18 +0000

Why place all the blame on the WGA TB? Doesn’t the AMPTP share the blame? They say they need more time to study if new technology like DVDs and the Internet can turn a profit. ? Are they kidding?!! Who are they trying to fool? Didn’t they say the same thing to the WGA when VHS came out? Another thing, if small companies like Worldwide Pants and United Artists can make fair deals with the writers, why can’t these big studios? I’ll tell you why, it’s the same greed you accuse the writers of having.