Yesterday I wrote a post called: Writers Strike and the Myth of the Free Market
John Hewitt who runs the excellent and comprehensive Writer’s Resource Center responded with my question about how we could support the strike with an excellent article of his own, called: Three Reasons to Support the WGA Strike and Three Ways You Can Do It
He points out some things there I didn’t know, like how the copyrights for screenwriters differ from those of us who blog or write for print, and how small the number of employers for movie scripts has actually become - it’s down to six. And I suspect that number is roughly the same as the owners of our news media, which is why we no longer get news, but infotainment. All this, of course, comes from trashing of the Sherman Antitrust Act and deregulation of so much, all in the name of the free market.
Sigh. Take a look at John’s article and in a few minutes you’ll come away with a deeper understanding of the issues.
Thanks, John,
Write well and often,
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