At 04:53 PM 1/12/2008, you (debra fauvor) wrote:
>Is the strike mostly supported by the poorer writers, or the ones
>making 100K or more a year? And yes it matters.

The "poorer" writers are the ones behind this strike, as they make up
the vast majority of the Writers Guild. The few who make $100K or
more a year were all in the "starving writer" category at one point,
so they can identify with the need to bring in a few extra cents when
somebody watches a story on the Internet/Web. Writers share in the
additional profits that producers make selling reruns in syndication
and on recordings (tape and DVD). All revenues (mostly from ads, not
from viewers) from reruns shown online go exclusively to the
producers. The writers just want the tiny piece of the pie that
they've gotten from other media to extend to the Web. The producers
can afford this, but it cuts into the profits that they have promised
to their investors.

FWIW, I think that the Producers both understand and agree with the
writers. because most of them are paid for the same reasons. It's
the "investors" who have to be convinced to share, IMHO. The hard
part of keeping track of this dispute is that most of the people
opposing the writers are "invisible" to the general public.

Dan

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