Top 10 Reasons the Screenwriters’ Strike Won’t End Quickly

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10. Not enough screenings of Norma Rae. The magazine The Nation already believes that Hollywood is antagonistic to the working class.

9. The Taft-Hartley Act allows binding arbitration for protection of public health, safety, or interest – not for movies.

8. The Air Traffic Controllers are going to redirect any planes bringing the parties together because PATCO was decertified.

7. Terrorists have infiltrated WGA as an attack on the American pursuit of happiness!

6. Big Oil wants to destroy the greenest industry in America because it is switching from film (petroleum based) to digital. Entertainment doesn’t leave strip mines in its wake, the electricity costs are negligible compared to any other manufacturing industry, and the results are reusable for generations. (You can read how lower cost digital media is making independent films easier to produce on Wikipedia.)

5. The WGA wants to continue the great traditions of American Labor. This battle has been waged since America’s inception.

4. Media moguls think screenwriters will be easy to replace. They are wrong.

3. If screenwriters get power so will software engineers, and Bill Gates is against it.

2. Screenwriters don’t know how to tell their own stories and unions have been objecting to movies for a long time! The New York Times reported strikers objecting to film in 1906.

1. It is a greedy grab for more money by both sides – and greed is never satisfied.

Written by Mary Howell.