Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.
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How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
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Unions Are Trying to Save Hollywood From Its Own Foolish Executives
Left to their own devices, the CEOs will ruin the American film and TV industry.
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The Actors Walk
The strike of SAG-AFTRA highlights a summer of workers’ pushback against a finance-driven economy.
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What’s Turned Hollywood Stars Into Labor Militants
Today on TAP: Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, and 1,000 other disgruntled actors tell their union not to meet the studios halfway.
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Drowned in the Stream
Hard-hitting filmmaker Amy Ziering on why journalistic documentaries are facing extinction
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Casablanca for Real
The Netflix series ‘Transatlantic,’ on the 1940-1941 rescue of refugees from Marseille, is well worth watching, and contrasting with the shameful neglect of refugees in 2023.
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Will Dem PR Flacks Help Studios Crush Striking Writers Again?
How two ‘Masters of Disaster’ helped Hollywood execs break the last writers strike
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Writers Face a New Deadline: Their Industry’s Survival
This time, Hollywood’s striking writers think they may just win. Will cross-union solidarity be enough?
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The Writers Walk
Today on TAP: The nearly century-long war between the studios and the writers continues.
