{"id":1274,"date":"2007-11-06T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/11\/06\/the-cake-is-a-lie-2\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T20:35:00","slug":"the-cake-is-a-lie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/11\/06\/the-cake-is-a-lie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cake is a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pie<\/span>, on the other hand, is quite delicious.<\/p>\n

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(Graphics by Adam Levermore-Rich<\/a>)<\/small><\/div>\n

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike began yesterday. The title of this post comes from John Rogers<\/a>, who enjoys cake as well as the video game Portal<\/a>, and has a lot to say about why the strike happened and what should be done to end it. I mean, a lot.<\/span> All you really need to know is the tiger<\/span> bit. (Maybe the clip from The Daily Show<\/span>. It is, after all, the last new episode you’re going to see for a while.)<\/p>\n

Another John, Mr. August<\/a> to you, is tagging his strike-related blog posts for easy reading. Over at Artful Writer<\/a>, Craig Mazin and Ted Elliott are doing the same.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Brian K. Vaughn<\/a> and Ken Levine<\/a> also discuss the situation which led to the strike. Jane Espenson<\/a> and Lisa Klink<\/a> talk about being on the picket lines.<\/p>\n

Many others are posting at United Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last, but not least, here’s the “Pencils Down”<\/a> full-page ad in which dozens of showrunners pledge not to write during the strike.<\/p>\n

I’m only a pair of eyeballs in all this, but the major issues seem pretty clear-cut. When the writer of a show only gets paid .3% for DVD residuals (royalties)–that’s less than a third of one percent<\/span>–something is hideously broken.<\/p>\n

If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage. And now it ain’t on the page. Deal with that, Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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