The Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) is formally on strike for the primary time in 15 years, and so they’ve introduced their writing skills to the picket line.
Lots of of screenwriters and supporters flooded to the Los Angeles and New York headquarters of main media corporations in time with the guild’s strike, which kicked off Tuesday afternoon.
The work stoppage was referred to as after negotiations with the group representing main studios and streaming companies broke down Monday night time. In a statement, the WGA mentioned the studios’ responses have been “wholly inadequate, given the existential disaster writers are going through.”
Indicators on the WGA strike
Other than the chants and snappy shirts, picketers arrived armed with intelligent, putting and hilarious indicators. “I informed ChatGPT to put in writing a picket signal and it sucked,” one learn. “My pronouns are: Pay/Me,” wrote one other.
Right here’s a sampling of our favourites.
In the meantime, TV host and writers guild member Adam Conover made an look on CNN Tuesday, throughout which he lambasted David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery which owns the information community, for making $250,000,000 final yr.
“That’s about the identical stage as what 10,000 writers are asking him to pay all of us, collectively,” Conover mentioned.
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