Part Two- The Strike
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Hollywood Writers Strike that is going on. Its the one that is preventing your favourite shows to continue. Although this strike is preventing me from watching The Office I support it because I support the writers who keep us entertained. If a strike is happening it means something is going wrong that needs to be righted, these writers need to be compensated for all the work that they put into their jobs. I’ll be sad to miss my shows, but I’ll know that it’s for a good reason. We are all writers, can you imagine if you did a job, a job not a volunteer position, and not be recognized or payed for it. I personally would be pissed off! I support these writers who write the scripts that keep us laughing out loud, secretly wiping tears from our eyes, and giving us a different perspective on life. Do you?
The strike is because of “new media”, the networks don’t know if they can make money off of or not. I’m going to take the writer’s side and say that it doesn’t matter if the network is making money off of putting up episodes of the show for download, they should still pay the writer’s more for the amount of downloads a show gets. Personally, I’m going to miss The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Conan O’Brien. I don’t really watch much else regularly. This really sucks though