do you really care if the writers guild is on strike?

Question

I don`t, their work is getting sloppy and boring anyways and it does not affect my life 1 tittle. I`ll live with movies and reality shows for a long time It`s time ordinary folk get the spotlight for a change instead of the same old hollywood morons.

Answer 1

yes, I am not paying for cable tv anymore so its saving me money

Answer 2

Let's try to put this in some language that you might better understand. In order to do this I am going to have to use hypothetical situations which I am pretty sure you may not know the meaning of so in your words I am going to make up a situation that someone of your mindset and intelligence can comprehend. So..... Let me knock it down to about the 5th grade level for you. We are gonna call you, ummmm let's see, um,,,, Vincent VanGoh, how's that, little 10 year old Vincent. Now I have an extensive background in art and writing, in fact you might call it a passion. We can call me, let's see, I can be Andy Warhol. (Remember now, we are both 10-years of age and nobody knows us from a fly on the wall.) Now Vincent, you too have a passion for painting and in fact you have mastered a technique of layering colors side by side in single strokes so that when viewed from a distance appear to be one color for example...... You like to lay blue strokes by yellow ones ie; Blue and Yellow make green (aha, just like the Zip Lock commercial, and little ole' me A.W. I just paint silly things like soup cans and Marilyn Monroe and all that Jazz. See though here is the big catch to it all, no matter how badly the Warhol paintings are in comparison to one as great as yourself they are still pieces that were thought up in our heads, tweaked and corrected til we were happy with them and then laid upon canvas or paper and voila - Mr. VanGoh has created once again a masterpiece and me, well some weird looking painting of the same person (John Lennon perhaps) on the same canvas in different colors. Strange as it may be your masterpiece and my piece of crap now take on a really cool little name called "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" and boy oh boy, nobody can use it, sell it, duplicate it or profit from it ever, never, no way, now how without me taking a big toke off my spliff and you losing your mind and cutting your ear off before we agree to their terms. If they were to do such a thing, we are in the big, big money baby, and you can sew your ear back on or a set of balls which ever you choose. But wait, what's this. After your surgery you wanna go to Barnes and Noble and browse the books and suck up some cappuccino. Just by pure luck we come upon a book, a really thick coffee table book of art and we open it up and much to our surprise it is a huge collection of our works of art for the last ten years and in just two short weeks it went from the best seller rack all the way down to the bargain tables, but that is okay we will still rake in some mullah on the royalties that our manager gives us. Oh ****, hey wait; we never signed any waiver or permission to reproduce our work?? How in the hell did this happen? It's our work and these over paid, pompous freaks our now taking all the profits for the resale of our work and we don't see even a dime. When we ask them why they quickly reply, "Oh guys, you made thousands on your originals, you have no right to the resale values, that is all ours, true we have no intellect but we are gonna claim intellectual property anyways. Sorry, good luck, see ya.
Hmmmm..... Makes perfectly, 100%, sense to me. Let's just give our work away from now on. So what if I spent the first ten years of my career eating Ramen Noodles, peanut butter and jelly and macaroni and cheese. We are loving, caring artists, let's just give them all our money. We are just cool that way.
Read a little man, get some knowledge under your belt.

Answer 3

I don't give a crap. Those writers get paid too much, and now they're demanding more? Greediness.

Answer 4

I don't feel bad for the writers - they chose to go on strike. I read on Yahoo news they average $62,500 a year.

I feel bad for the other people put out of work by the strikers, the cameramen, stage setters, sound men, etc.

I'm catching up on my reading.

Answer 5

reality tv morons are worse because we don't have to guess what they're like in real life. I miss my shows...THE OFFICE! besides... i support the strike. The studios have millions and definately don't pay their writers enough. It's bullshit.

Answer 6

yes! the next prison break episode is on a 2 month hold-off untill then and we guys can't contain the excitement. same 4 lost and 24..

Answer 7

I do.
It may not affect my life directly, but I still care about them.

Answer 8

I don't watch much TV or go to the movies much. So, no I don't care all that much.

Answer 9

I don't think it makes a difference because these shows lately are not as good as they use to be.

Answer 10

I still sleep at night.

Brandon