{"id":400,"date":"2007-11-09T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/11\/09\/what-writers-wan\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:48","slug":"what-writers-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/11\/09\/what-writers-wan\/","title":{"rendered":"What writers want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been annoyed because you&#8217;re missing your daily dose of <em>The Daily Show<\/em> (like me) you might be interested in this video from the striking writers about what they want.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good use of the medium. The video is short, snappy and lays the issues out in a clear fashion, with plenty of graphics to back up their points. Anyone looking for advice on how to put together a presentation that works should take note.<\/p>\n<p>What I can&#8217;t understand is how the issues in this strike have been allowed to go on for so long. It was almost 20 years ago that the writers agreed to give up a significant part of their share of the home video pie, to help get the business going. Now, 20 years later, everyone agrees that what&#8217;s happened to them is unfair and should be fixed. But during all this time, the writers&#8217; share of those revenues hasn&#8217;t changed. Why didn&#8217;t anyone from the big companies ever say &#8220;This is silly and needs to be fixed&#8221;? Seems like a no-brainer to me, but then, I often thing that common sense should prevail. Silly me.<\/p>\n<p>If you support the writers, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedhollywood.blogspot.com\/\">UnitedHollywood.com<\/a> to see their blog, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/WGA\/petition.html\">sign their petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been annoyed because you&#8217;re missing your daily dose of The Daily Show (like me) you might be interested in this video from the striking writers about what they want. This is a good use of the medium. The video is short, snappy and lays the issues out in a clear fashion, with plenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-6s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}