It’s not fair really. When the content creators walk out on their corporate masters in the big media companies, the masters get ever-so slightly tongue-tied. The writers, on the other hand remain as witty as ever. And in an era where all it takes to be heard across the
Internet is a video camera and access to a demo laptop at the Apple Store, well, let’s just say the executives might be feeling a bit besieged at the moment, message-wise, by the Writers Guild of America and its strike over
not being cut in on DVD and Internet revenue.
Take, for example, The Daily Show Without Jon Stewart, a pointedly hilarious jab to the kidneys from The Daily Show’s writers, not to mention this follow-up Videologblog from a fictional executive, penned by those titans of truthiness the writers of The Colbert Report. The most delicious irony of all of course is the fact that the strike itself is proving the importance of the Internet as an entertainment medium. Now all we need is for TV’s executives to buy a few thousand clues with all the residuals they’re not paying writers, and everything would be dandy. I mean seriously, does anyone not see how this is going to turn out? And is it really worth jeopardizing the next season of Lost over? If that’s not enough, let’s solve this for poor rich and famous Sarah Silverman.
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Maybe it's evil, but I hope for a long strike to get people bored with television. Then they'll read more blogs.