How Streaming Hurt Hollywood Writers

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, thousands of writers went on strike against Hollywood studios over what they say is an existential threat to their livelihoods. John Koblin, a media reporter for The New York Times, explains how streaming turned the most prolific era in American entertainment into an industry-changing labor dispute. Guest: John Koblin, a media reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	Hey John, how are you?
0:03.0	Good, hi.
0:04.0	Hi, nice to meet you, Asta.
0:05.0	Nice to meet you.
0:06.0	Claire, nice to meet you.
0:08.0	Um, alright, I mean, let's get started.
0:12.0	No writers, no TV.
0:16.0	No writers, no TV.
0:18.0	I'm John Koblin, I covered a television industry at the time.
0:26.2	We are about 13, 14 hours since the writer's guild of America called for a strike.
0:32.2	This is the first picket line.
0:34.2	We're in Midtown Manhattan, outside.
0:37.2	I see a writer from Jimmy Kimmel right there.
0:40.2	Outside the NBC Universal Peacock New Front, which is sort of this event that they throw for advertisers.
0:48.2	And it'll be the same thing in LA later today.
0:50.2	Sorry, if folks could continue to back up, please to make room.
0:55.2	I'm not tall enough to see all the way down, but it's almost going all the way up from 47 to 30.
1:02.2	They're basically taking up the entire block of this point.
1:06.2	I need you guys to go all the way to the corner unless you're online.
1:10.2	There's a sign that says no scripts for you, like the Jerry Sign To.
1:14.2	Lie for me, on strike.
1:16.2	I think it's something like pay your workers or will spoil successions.
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