With the writers officially on strike in Hollywood, it appears that it could be the door opening for a gold strike or a beat down. Seriously. The studios are like the record companies, bottom line driven companies and they don’t care about your own safety. Little is it pointed out that these online hired writers would be considered scabs since they would be crossing the picket line.
This is a classic case of 20th century unions meeting 21st century entrepreneurship. The chance that violence could break out over this, might be a bit of a stretch of the imagination, but than again when you take someone’s job by crossing a picket line…. trouble could be looming on the horizon.
Now I’m pretty anti-TV myself. I haven’t really been burdened to watch a television show on time since the invention of TiVo or the DVR. I DVR stuff all the time, and rarely do I watch it. Television has transformed into 3 minute YouTube videos, and I don’t think I am alone.
While there are some that cry – all the content online is pirated or crap, well take a deeper look. If you look hard enough there are online shows that are worth watching. You just have to be willing to search them out. I found one while writing a blog post on PromQueen.tv awhile back.
Technically Speaking, I guess there will be no late night shows for awhile; Jay, Dave, Conan, Jimmy, etc all need a break.
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