Writers Strike, Silence Falls

In solidarity with the striking screenwriters there will be no laugh lines in this blog, no stunning metaphors, and not many adjectives. Also, in solidarity with the striking Broadway stage-hands, no theatrics, special effects or sing-along refrains.

Yes, I realize the strike could deprive millions of Americans of news as Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, and the rest of them are forced into re-runs. If the strike and the re-runs go on long enough, the same millions of Americans will be condemned to living in the past and writing in Kerry for president in 08. But are re-runs really such a bad thing? After opening night, every Broadway show is a re-run in perpetuity, yet people have been known to fly from Fargo to see “Mamma Mia.”

And yes, it’s a crying shame that so many laugh-worthy news items will go unnoted on the late night talk shows:  The discovery of Chinese toys coated with the date rape drug. The news that pot-smoking Swiss teenagers are as academically successful as abstainers and better socially adjusted. Bush’s repeated requests for Musharraf to take off his uniform. Could there be a simple explanation for the powerful affinity between these two men?

True, a screenwriters’ strike is not as emotionally compelling as a strike by janitors or farm-workers. Screenwriters are often well-paid – when they are paid. All it takes is for a show to get cancelled or reconceptualized, and they’re back on the streets again, hustling for work. I know a couple of them – smart, funny women who clamber nimbly from one short-lived job to another, struggling to keep up their health insurance and self-respect.

But my selfish hope here is that the screenwriters’ action will call attention to the plight of writers in general. Since I started in the freelancing business about 30 years ago, the per-word payment for print articles has remained exactly the same in actual, non-inflation-adjusted, dollars. Three dollars a word was pretty much top of the line, and it hasn’t gone up by a penny. More commonly in the old days, I made a dollar a word, requiring me to write three or four 1000-word pieces a month to supply the children with their bagels and pizza. One for Mademoiselle on “The Heartbreak Diet.” One for Ms. on “The Bright Side of the Man Shortage.” One for Mother Jones on pharmaceutical sales scams, and probably a book review thrown in.

There was a perk, of course – the occasional free lunch on an editor’s expense account. These would occur in up-market restaurants where the price of lunch for two would easily exceed my family’s weekly food budget, but I realized it would be gauche to bring a plastic baggie for the rolls. My job was to pitch story ideas over the field greens and tuna tartare, all the while marveling at the wealth that my writing helped generate, which, except for the food on my plate, went largely to someone other than me.

For print writers, things have gone steadily downhill. The number of traditional outlets—magazines and newspapers – is shrinking. Ms., for example, publishes only quarterly now, Mother Jones every two months, and Mademoiselle has long since said au revoir. You can blog on the Web of course, but that pays exactly zero. As for benefits: once the National Writers’ Union offered health insurance, but Aetna dropped it and then Unicare found writers too sickly to cover. (You can still find health insurance, however, at www.freelancersunion.org)

So, you may be thinking, who needs writers anyway? The truth is, no one needs any particular writer, just as no one needs any particular auto worker, stage-hand, or janitor. But take us all away and TV’s funny men will be struck mute, soap opera actors will be reduced to sighing and grunting, CNN anchors will have to fill the whole hour with chit chat about the weather, all greeting cards will be blank. Newspapers will consist of advertisements and movie listings; the Web will collapse into YouTube. A sad, bewildered, silence will come over the land.

Besides, anyone who’s willing to stand up to greedy bosses deserves our support. A victory for one group, from Ford workers to stage-hands, raises the prospects for everyone else. Who knows? If the screenwriters win, maybe some tiny measure of respect will eventually trickle down even to bloggers. So in further solidarity with striking writers, I’m going to shut up right now.

Comments

[dawn]

Thank you for this!!!

[This is retarded.]

"CNN anchors will have to fill the whole hour with chit chat about the weather"

IMHO, if more people tune into CNN instead of the Simpsons, it will be a profoundly good thing, and if they cover even half the stories that they should, they will get our far more information about world events than some stupid soap opera. Keeps striking writers...in fact, don't ever stop.

[Chickensh*tEagle]

"IMHO, if more people tune into CNN instead of the Simpsons, it will be a profoundly good thing..."

Why, because The Simpsons is a cartoon but the CNN anchors are there live?

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/11/presto_cnn_edit.php

[Grady Lee Howard]

Barbara, When in college I once checked one of your books from the library and photocopied it on the Geograhy Department copier. (I was a teaching assistant, showed videos and coached projects.) I marked up the copy for friends to review.
I learned plenty about writing from you, Barbara. How much do I owe you, I'm feeling guilty.

[Grady Lee Howard]

Barbara, When in college I once checked one of your books from the library and photocopied it on the Geograhy Department copier. (I was a teaching assistant, showed videos and coached projects.) I marked up the copy for friends to review.
I learned plenty about writing from you, Barbara. How much do I owe you, I'm feeling guilty.

[Grady Lee Howard]

Barbara, When in college I once checked one of your books from the library and photocopied it on the Geograhy Department copier. (I was a teaching assistant, showed videos and coached projects.) I marked up the copy for friends to review.
I learned plenty about writing from you, Barbara. How much do I owe you, I'm feeling guilty.

[Grady Lee Howard]

Barbara, When in college I once checked one of your books from the library and photocopied it on the Geograhy Department copier. (I was a teaching assistant, showed videos and coached projects.) I marked up the copy for friends to review.
I learned plenty about writing from you, Barbara. How much do I owe you, I'm feeling guilty.

[Hattie]

Turn off the copy machine now.
If Hollywood or the TV networks are looking for a scab gag writer, here I am.

[Dawn]

Hattie, it is that kind of solidarity that keeps writers' pay in the toilet and respect almost nonexistent.

Dawn

[Andrea]

Many people do not know how to value good writing. Very few people understand the degree of skill required to create effective prose, and very few people understand the process of creating prose. So much of it appears before our eyes without any indication of the effort that went into it.

I'm glad the writers are striking. I'm glad they are asking to have their skills receive appreciation where it counts: in the paycheck. And I am glad that we'll have to suffer a little bit because we will learn how much we are dependent upon people who have underappreciated skills.

[gaby]

Well, wouldn't it be great if Jay Leno and David Letterman and the likes would start truly earning their millions by writing their own stuff.

Anyhow, I am always supportive of ripped-off people fighting back.

[Peter K.]

"Bush’s repeated requests for Musharraf to take off his uniform."

I noticed this too. Condi would say it also.

[Mary]

Potshots at Bush aside, this is a great post about an overlooked portion of America: the writer and his or her family.

Why is Seinfield a millionaire but his writers are still sclepping to an office somewhere (and yes, I probably spelled sclepping wrong)?

I think that writers are woefully underpaid and underappreciated, much like teachers, social workers, cops and fire fighters. We are a selfish society that likes to "think" we are evolved and revolutionary - the reality is that, sadly, we are more like copycats and sheep.

I salute the writers for striking, even though I will miss my mind numbing Desperate Housewives show. Worse still are magazines that try to "start" off the back's of writers, asking for free content in which to build their fortunes.

As the editor of a start-up, I demanded that the publisher offer something. I realize that it's not enough, but by Goodness, it's something and that's a start (no, I'm not paid at this point. I agreed to six months of work for 25 percent of the magazine -- smart business choice? we'll see, but at least now the publisher is as invested in me as I am in her).

[Brian]

I haven't watched the news in years since I prefer to spend my tv time with Spongebob, and a bunch of creative cooking shows and some of the more outrageous comedians on comedy central like Dave Atel. Also I like adult swim and Robot Chicken and Aqua Fresh Hunger team. Last I skimmed the news channels I found them manipulative, pandering, and selling a lot of fear 24-7. One lead was "Is your refrigerator going to get you?". I do find tv shows like Cops TV tell you all you really need to know of what they expect of us. Sometimes I think the Daily Show and even Stephen Cobert have partially sold out but then its the advertisements that keep them going. When I want abuse from angry judgemental republican narcisso-tv personalities its readily available on the lcd screen. They are profoundly rigtheous in the manner of abusive parents. I guess that really sells. The financial channels cnbc and blooberg can tell you how the business world is fleecing everyone so a few can live like barons of yore and how they drive the political economy. If you want cynical in your face spin just tune in whomever is speaking for the white house. But I find Spongebob the best at capturing the nature of people and the human condition and at the same time it manages to be genuinely witty. I think you have to reframe the humans down to cartoons before they are palatable. Till they defund it pbs has some nice animal shows and a twinge of liberal analysis on issues which the right wants to shutter up. Frankly there are times that Pat Robertson is the only one who gives you anything real. His financial advice is absolutely sound and helpful unlike cnbc which is a massive marketing machine. Charlie rose is pretty good as he actually interviews dignified adults with the nice suits. Nobody else does. And Cokie Roberts is absolutely tops for intelligent political commentary. She has a brain. As for the writers, well being a former English Major I wish I could be sympathetic but a lot of the trash they are turning out would make a mule puke. Where did their I.Q.'s go or are they just writing for the saloon crowd. Why is Seinfeld so rich for a simple understated overhyped tv show? Have you seen the pictures of his house. Its truly big enough to house grand central station and then he beat up Larry King cause he could. Where did our media get off making people so rich just because we are bored and want something to watch? Maybe that is why your laundry soap and sneakers cost so much. 150 dollar kids sneakers, made in malaysia, oh my. A ticket to a lakers game costing you 135 dollars? Well those hoop dunkers need thier millions so they can compete with the rock stars as they so deserve to be rich millionires. Maybe they too can fix up their estates to house dog runs where all sorts of hijinx can go on to impress others with their virilness. And think of all our great corporate ceo's who half destroy companies, finally get booted two years two late and given tens, hundreds of millions of dollars from unbelivably imcompetent boards of directors who sit on the board of two or three other big companies to just go away. Goldman Sach's paid their 25 top partners 25 mil last year, and this year is predicted to be even better. Where did all that money come from? What you haven't gotten a real raise above inflation in the past thirty years, even if your working mandatory administrative overtime with no lunch breaks and ever shorter vacations with a cellphone to your ear even when your home in the bathtub? Oh they erased pensions too. Guess you will have to save more money and pay taxes on it again when you try and pull it out, assuming your a whiz at investing and can go head to head with the professionals on wall street who can leverage their returns with huge borrowed money, from whom? Where do you think all that money comes from? It comes from people like you and me and him and her. Got an suv with a tax break not available to the regular worker? Worried your kids are stuck in a failing public school that is preparing them for reform school and later prison? Got new neighbors that falsified their income and credit to get that house next to you after you worked all your life to get yours? What media producers don't want to give up that option on a third house, an apartment in New York and Paris to some "writer". Writers have no face, no marquee appeal. Hollywood always devours its young and spits them out. Its always done that. This mentality has spread to the general work force and the people pushing it are mean and stubborn. Writers are simply wetback day labor for most outfits. They may pen and push words to the high paid faces, but they are still stoop labor. One at the top gets paid fairly well and he will have his favorite behind him, and from there its just the wannabe's, the disposables. Its Dickinsonian. In fact that is where we are going again. They can write about it too, but no-one is going to publish it. There is no money in the truth.

[chris]

Brian, you wrote:

"Writers are simply wetback day labor for most outfits. They may pen and push words to the high paid faces, but they are still stoop labor. One at the top gets paid fairly well and he will have his favorite behind him, and from there its just the wannabe's, the disposables. Its Dickinsonian."

Yeah. You're right. It's Dickinsonian. Emily would find mountains of poetry in it.

[Curly Earl]

I'd bet Hattie could drum up a howler of a storyline for any show. Do let us know if we will be watching any of your concoctions soon.

You could probably get a good story out of that whacky broad in Perth. Comedy or science fiction? Anyone's guess.

[roger]

ELYSIUM is as far as to
The very nearest room,
If in that room a friend await
Felicity or doom.

What fortitude the soul contains,
That it can so endure
The accent of a coming foot,
The opening of a door!

The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.
Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this High Court of Chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds this day in the sight of heaven and earth.

brian my friend i must say that there is a significant difference between dickinson and dickens aside from the circumstance that the intended likeness to bleak house fails entirely.

[realpc]

Writing, like most of the creative arts, is extremely competitive. The best writers earn most of the money. What use are unions and guilds? A writer with great talent and luck will be in demand and can set his/her price. An unlucky, untalented writer won't get paid and no union can change that.

[roger]

"True, a screenwriters’ strike is not as emotionally compelling as a strike by janitors or farm-workers. Screenwriters are often well-paid – when they are paid. All it takes is for a show to get cancelled or reconceptualized, and they’re back on the streets again, hustling for work. I know a couple of them – smart, funny women who clamber nimbly from one short-lived job to another, struggling to keep up their health insurance and self-respect."

if they wanted self respect they would abandon employment which entices otherwise intelligent people to write transparent and foolish comedy, lies and fable, and highly selective revisionist history. its only television. let them seek respectable employment.

[Chickensh*tEagle]

roger: "if they wanted self respect they would abandon employment which entices otherwise intelligent people to write transparent and foolish comedy, lies and fable, and highly selective revisionist history. its only television. let them seek respectable employment."

Like...um...public relations?

[roger]

why would public relations be more beneficial than writing rot for television.

[roger]

damon lindelof is the head writer for the television series "lost". after reporting that writers receive nothing from the studios from internet broadcasts of television shows he writes the following in a new york times opinion piece:

"If this strike lasts longer than three months, an entire season of television will end this December. No dramas. No comedies. No “Daily Show.” The strike will also prevent any pilots from being shot in the spring, so even if the strike is settled by then, you won’t see any new shows until the following January. As in 2009. Both the guild and the studios we are negotiating with do agree on one thing: this situation would be brutal."

his description of the circumstance as brutal is telling. some things are of significance. whether or not the pilots for the new fall lineup for 2008 are produced is not one of those things. people used to read books.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/opinion/11lindelof.html

[Chickensh*tEagle]

"The strike will also prevent any pilots from being shot in the spring...."

Well, there you are -- central front in the war on terror! ;-)

[Anarcissie]

So how much is writing worth?

Not the idea of writing, or the great classics -- the production of more written material, along the lines of what now exists, for whatever purpose.

41 words and some punctuation which I'm giving away -- what could I get for them?

[andrew]

i can't get excited about the writers strike. they are literate and clever people who could work in many jobs. they write crap for people who produce crap. a "victory" for the
writers will be meaningless
for many workers who ARE
oppressed (not the stagehands).

[roger]

that we could view writers or stagehands or television viewers as victimized/exploited by this wage dispute at all tells you what fortunate circumstances we live in here in the united states. other parts of the world are recovering from a devastating tsunami. other parts of the world are trying to find something to eat.

[roger]

that we could view writers or stagehands or television viewers as victimized/exploited by this wage dispute at all tells you what fortunate circumstances we live in here in the united states. other parts of the world are recovering from a devastating tsunami. other parts of the world are trying to find something to eat.

[chris]

It appears the writing world is sufferring from excess capacity. Writers are everywhere.

Every college and university in the country now offers writing courses. They've established writing sub-departments within English departments and they are offering degrees out the wazoo.

Masters in Fiction Writing, Masters in Non-Fiction, Masters in Poetry. Even Masters in Memoir Writing, a program I hope more wordmeisters tackle. Every inch, every millimeter of human or inhuman activity is under someone's personal and emotional microscope. It's relentless.

The market for readers has been segmented, put through seives, refined, and granulated to the point that there's a web and/or print publication for every topic known to man.

Barbara claims the number of venues is decreasing. She makes this claim by citing a couple of print magazines that have ceased publication. Frankly, I liked Mademoiselle and Self. But I won't miss them. I won't miss them anymore than I miss the TV shows gone from the air. Maybe I'll remember them fondly. But that's it.

Anyway, there's too damn many writers. That's the problem. And most of them stink. But even if they stink, they might succeed.

And there's more of them every day. On hundreds of street corners in New York City you can find a row of distribution boxes filled with free papers. The Village Voice is probably the best known. For locals, there is another box containing copies of THE L Magazine.

Finally, there is the box offering an opening to the big dream. The box with the Gotham Writers' Workshop catalogue inside.

Every form of writing known to man is taught by the staff at Gotham, including screenwriting, and TV writing. There's even a Winter Teen program. And it's my belief the teachers are good.

There are hundreds of classes underway at all times, and fresh catalogues are always available when you need one. But making money is never mentioned as one of the reasons for taking these courses. No Wall Street dough is promised. No career enhancing, wealth-building opportunities are said to lie ahead for those who ace these courses. Just laboring for love and love of the laboring.

Meanwhile, every day there are a dozen book readings and book signings scheduled in NY City. Seems now every author has a website and/or a blog. Moreover, the lesson learned about the Internet is this: media content must be free. Like the Village Voice, advertisers pay the freight.

The New York Times thought highly enough of itself that it charged readers for access to its leading pundits. That failed. Of course it's hard to convince readers to pay for the ranting lunacy of a guy like Paul Krugman or the piercing wails of Maureen Dowd. The NY Times wised up. Now they're giving away the content.

Guess what? Online readership appears to have surged from far less than one million to about 15 million. The advertisers are ready.

Readers of the financial pages may enjoy the same bonanza. The Wall Street Journal is close to offering its online paper for the unbeatable price of $0.00. If the Times can pull in the advertising dollars, the Journal can too.

Furthermore, an Internet company is about to go public. NameMedia.com filed its S-1, the document companies submit to the SEC before their IPOs.

What does this company do? It trades Internet domain names. Why do Internet domain names have value? In a word: Advertising revenue. Okay, two words. Business is migrating to the Internet and where business goes, advertising explodes and profits follow.

A TV show distributed on the Internet offers the prospect of huge ad revenue for production companies. And the death of Tivo. Maybe someone should take up a collection for the crew at Tivo, and Blockbuster, while they're at it.

But as far as fairness goes, the writers should get their two cents worth of compensation at every turn. The writing is a major reason viewers and readers stick with TV shows, movies, books and articles. Even Bay Watch needed writers.

[chris]

It appears the writing world is sufferring from excess capacity. Writers are everywhere.

Every college and university in the country now offers writing courses. They've established writing sub-departments within English departments and they are offering degrees out the wazoo.

Masters in Fiction Writing, Masters in Non-Fiction, Masters in Poetry. Even Masters in Memoir Writing, a program I hope more wordmeisters tackle. Every inch, every millimeter of human or inhuman activity is under someone's personal and emotional microscope. It's relentless.

The market for readers has been segmented, put through seives, refined, and granulated to the point that there's a web and/or print publication for every topic known to man.

Barbara claims the number of venues is decreasing. She makes this claim by citing a couple of print magazines that have ceased publication. Frankly, I liked Mademoiselle and Self. But I won't miss them. I won't miss them anymore than I miss the TV shows gone from the air. Maybe I'll remember them fondly. But that's it.

Anyway, there's too damn many writers. That's the problem. And most of them stink. But even if they stink, they might succeed.

And there's more of them every day. On hundreds of street corners in New York City you can find a row of distribution boxes filled with free papers. The Village Voice is probably the best known. For locals, there is another box containing copies of THE L Magazine.

Finally, there is the box offering an opening to the big dream. The box with the Gotham Writers' Workshop catalogue inside.

Every form of writing known to man is taught by the staff at Gotham, including screenwriting, and TV writing. There's even a Winter Teen program. Nevertheless, it's my belief the teachers are good.

There are hundreds of classes underway at all times, and fresh catalogues are always available when you need one. But making money is never mentioned as one of the reasons for taking these courses. No Wall Street dough is promised. No career enhancing, wealth-building opportunities are said to lie ahead for those who ace these courses. Just laboring for love and love of the laboring.

Meanwhile, every day there are a dozen book readings and book signings scheduled in NY City. Seems now every author has a website and/or a blog. Moreover, the lesson learned about the Internet is this: media content must be free. Like the Village Voice, advertisers pay the freight.

The New York Times thought highly enough of itself that it charged readers for access to its leading pundits. That failed. Of course it's hard to convince readers to pay for the ranting lunacy of a guy like Paul Krugman.

The Times stopped charging and readership exploded, going from far less than a million to about 15 million.

The Wall Street Journal is about to reward its readers the same way. Actually, the Journal is showing real generosity. It's about to end the annual $99 subscription fee for its online version to go completely free.

It's all happening on the Internet. And all the content will soon be free, supported by advertisers. The losers will be Tivo and Blockbuster. Maybe a collection should be taken up for the employees of those two operations.

But as far as fairness goes, the writers should get their two cents of compensation at every turn. The writing is a major reason viewers and readers stick with TV shows, movies, books and articles. Even Bay Watch needed writers.

[chris]

A growing number of blogs are urging support for the Writer's Guild strike.

How do you support the writers? Will turning off the TV or staying out of the movie theaters do the trick? Is reading a book an act of support?

In fact, the only act that supports the writers is one that involves keeping one's wallet in one's pocket.

Since TV exists to support advertisers, then refusing to buy advertised products is the one act that will force the producers to give ground to the writers.

Of course that could backfire. Cigarette companies cannot advertise on TV. But sales are still strong 40 years after the end of televised ads.

[Chickensh*tEagle]

Not The Daily Show, with Some Writer (and somebody who sounds like John Oliver):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w&eurl=http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

[suzanne caplan]

Writers write.....we want to and we need to. It is our gift and our curse. As is our need to monetarize the effort. We are not victims, we are the recipient of a great gift. We need a voice not a handout.

[Jacqueline S. Homan]

Fisrt, to realpc and some of the other bloggers who think getting one's just economic rewards is based on a meritocracy: Wrong.

The truth: the ultra rich have sold everyone a bill of goods since time immemorial that if they were "good enough" they'd get their fair share. Well, if you delve into a history book once in awhile, you will find that it did not work that way.

Second, to anyone who says writers don't produce something of value: does the Dark Ages ring a bell?

Imagine a world without literature. How educated would everybody be? Imagine if we were a completely oral culture. What do you think our society would be like? What sort of entertainment would you have (if you can afford any)?

The arts, including writing (I am a free lance writer writing my second book and trying to get published), have been the very things that defined culture in every society throughout history: from cave paintings to the writings of authors today.

But I digress...the fact is, whether your job is "pushing a pencil" or pushing a mop, you deserve to be compensated for your work. But that's not happening. When the writers were asked by the big shots to forego getting paid royalties back in the 1980's until the VHS market became profitable, they were promised that they would get back these concessions once the industry became profitable. And it did - many times over. And now we have DVD's.

But here we are, 20 years later, and the screenwriters are still expected by greedy bosses to continue wating - hat in hand - for that empty pie-in-the-sky promise to be fulfilled; for their turn to get some of that trickle down wealth. Every time their stuff sold on DVD, writers get a measly 4 cents. No royalties beyond that such as for Internet downloadable versions, promos, etc.

I am supporting the striking screenwriters by refraining from renting or buying ANY DVD, or any downloadable show. If the screenwriters are good enough to entertain everybody, they're good enough to be compensated fairly for their work.

[The Promiscuous Reader]

Since I don't watch TV, the threat of an early end to the season and endless reruns doesn't impress me much. My goodness, will people actually have to find something else to do? I read, watch movies on video/DVD, and for background sound I either play recorded music or let my community radio station do it for me. I support the writers' strike, but TV just isn't on my personal radar.

[Brian]

Thinking a little more deeper into the writers stike and the intrangent studio cartel, it occured to me "wait" popular media writing has become nothing more than a "mere" commodity. The commoditization of the popular culture, the endless knockoffs and tweaked sequells has lowered the status of writers even as their pay has gone up. Their product is a commodity, nothing more than the old Dick Van Dyke writer's boiler room in the B&W tv era. And that show was the end of all their careers> no wonder corporations experts in pushing commodities see the multiplatform redundent media venues as mere commodity nozzles. This will be a shock to writers, as to corporations they are nothing but expensive noisy cattle for their processing plants. They aren't stars, and they are pretty interchangeable, young, naive, and idealistic soon to be cynically seasoned. How many great writers, playrights, does America even have today for a supposedly literate entertainment loving nation of 300 million?

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