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Forget the Strike, Where are My Shows?

February 28, 2008

And with a long, drawn out sigh, the Writer’s Strike is over. The 100-day strike came to a pen clicking halt Feb. 13 with a Writer’s Guild of America vote of 92.5 percent in favor of the new resolution. The deal resolved the dispute over Internet based content and streaming video, a sticking point for both the WGA and the major motion picture studios. With royalties based on the scale of proportional web video, writers will be granted pay hikes due to the inevitable collapse of DVD sales and television programming being pushed to a more Internet based 


Wait, wait wait, what about our shows?!?!?


Through the bureaucratic phantasmagoria of picket line mayhem, those of us who have been following the writer’s strike worried about fair shakes, proper wages and the fight against the man. We were up in arms about the motion picture studios taking away all of our shows when their Draconian methods made the writers kick out from their d

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