Comments on: Two cents on the writer’s strike http://mediacology.com/2007/11/13/two-cents-on-the-writers-strike/ Media Permaculture Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:47:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Antonio http://mediacology.com/2007/11/13/two-cents-on-the-writers-strike/#comment-3302 Antonio Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:17:49 +0000 http://mediacology.com/2007/11/13/two-cents-on-the-writers-strike/#comment-3302 I agree that most programming that actually gets produced is crap, but that's because most producers are MBAs and not fans. Still, sometimes a good product sneaks through, like Battlestar Galactica. Regardless, it's a matter of principle that the industry gets called on their hypocrisy. Why is there a double standard for the digital world? It's about tome the creatives who generate all the ideas get fully compensated for their work. CEOs have little to complain about. They make astronomical amounts of money off other people's labor, even it's crap they are making. I agree that most programming that actually gets produced is crap, but that’s because most producers are MBAs and not fans. Still, sometimes a good product sneaks through, like Battlestar Galactica. Regardless, it’s a matter of principle that the industry gets called on their hypocrisy. Why is there a double standard for the digital world? It’s about tome the creatives who generate all the ideas get fully compensated for their work. CEOs have little to complain about. They make astronomical amounts of money off other people’s labor, even it’s crap they are making.

]]> By: Lt. Starbuck http://mediacology.com/2007/11/13/two-cents-on-the-writers-strike/#comment-3298 Lt. Starbuck Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:56:39 +0000 http://mediacology.com/2007/11/13/two-cents-on-the-writers-strike/#comment-3298 I would be more sympathetic if there were actual quality involved in the writer's product. Now, I certainly understand that it is grossly unfair of me to brand all screen writer's output as drek. But drek is what the average media consumer is getting, and I think it is too much to expect sympathy from them. It seems to me that the real quality writing is reserved for media that is designed to be manipulative (news, editorial, so-called tv magazines), while entertainment gets the dregs and the leftovers. Am I wrong? Maybe it would be enlightening for American media consumers to see their media heroes and heroines left to their own devices! I would be more sympathetic if there were actual quality involved in the writer’s product. Now, I certainly understand that it is grossly unfair of me to brand all screen writer’s output as drek.

But drek is what the average media consumer is getting, and I think it is too much to expect sympathy from them.

It seems to me that the real quality writing is reserved for media that is designed to be manipulative (news, editorial, so-called tv magazines), while entertainment gets the dregs and the leftovers.

Am I wrong?

Maybe it would be enlightening for American media consumers to see their media heroes and heroines left to their own devices!

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