Daily Show Writer Explains Writers Strike
The gist: Media companies don’t want to pay writers for content displayed online, because no one knows how much that’s worth, except that it’s worth $1 billion when Viacom sues YouTube over it.
Seems easy enough to fix…just give the writers a chunk of that billion…problem solved!
Video (with Daily Show guest stars) after the break…
(Via Boing Boing)
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Hypocracy seems to be the real name of the game. I can’t say I’m surprised that the media companies aren’t willing to negotiate over internet content rights and residuals, but really - what the fuck are they going to do without union writers? They’re totally hosed if they don’t get to the bargaining table soon.