Flee the city of destruction, David, and that hell-hole called Hollywood! Those October fires were just the harbinger of things to come!! Heard it myself on Jack van Grumpy
(could you snafu me some Dodgers tix for 08 b4 you leave? ya know, like, just in case…)

Let’s see: Writer’s they filter the world their idiosyncratic filter’s, (think Charlie Kaufman), and we get “Being John Malkovich”, “Adaptation”, and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. Without that writer, there is nothing, bupkiss, diddle, zip.
Of course, if what you prefer is an endless stream of “reality TV”, (and now soon coming to your neigbourhood, a “reality movie”), dispense with them all together. After all who needs a good narrative to sell product?
I have a suggestion for the Hollywood TV and film industry: Give the writers their due, and pay them a percentage of the profits that reflects their worth to your projects. That means a royalty on internet material. And if it is as worthless as you say, why not pay them a reasonable percentage, since any percentage of $0.00 is still $0.00, and if it is a small profit, then it only represents a tiny dollar value. But, if it does become truly profitable, then you will be making a mint anyway.
Be moral; be just. Give the writers their due.

Errata: Let’s see: Writers; they filter the world through their idiosyncratic filter’s, (think Charlie Kaufman), and we get “Being John Malkovich”, “Adaptation”, and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. Without that writer, there is nothing, bupkiss, diddle, zip.
Did I forget to mention the value of editors?

John Oliver is a funny guy

Most people don’t realize that all of Hollywood is unionized- the writers, the grips, the makeup artists, the set decorators, the lighting electricians. Each “below the line” (behind the scenes) job has it’s own IATSE union.
All the Hollywood unions are connected (similar to the national worker’s unions). If the strike persists, the other Hollywood unions will strike in solidarity. According to my very own Hollywood insider – everyone is scared that they may be out of work in a couple months if this doesn’t resolve.
Think about it: No makeup, no lighting, no sets painted… eventually the studios are left with a bunch of actors and directors with no one to make them look pretty or turn on the cameras. The studios are really hamstrung.
Hollywood as a whole may seem frivolous, but those “below the line” folks are experts in electrical lighting, construction, hazard prevention, choreography, and writing. They work with far bigger egos than we see here in DC.

Editors are creatures of Satan!

I’m sure finding this having to think for myself to be trying. Lord, have mercy and end this strike so we can return to that for which we were created – a perpetual vegetative, Zombie-like existence.

Well, as someone who remains unemployed due to the strike, I think it will last a long time. I am prepared. I have decided to spend the Holidays back east with my family. I’ll worry about it in January. I’m looking at it as a multi-month vacation.

What a skewering of Sumner Redstone. Complete hypocrisy on his and Viacom’s part.
It may win the writers the strike, but I wonder if this guy will still be working for the Daily Show when it’s over …