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The John Batchelor Show

#PacificWatch: The Hollywood strike dominates Southern California & What is to be done?. @JCBliss

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#PacificWatch: The Hollywood strike dominates Southern California & What is to be done?. @JCBliss
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-talent-strikes-back-hollywood-union-writers-actors-tv-movie-industry-6bf4e49f

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0:41.4

The strike of SAG after my union to California to Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch.

0:47.6

The strike dominates the news because this is an enormous part of the income of Southern California

0:54.0

and the nation. Jeff, the strike these last weeks have come to Peggy Newton writing a column

1:00.2

in the Wall Street Journal. Peggy puts it this way, my fear is that the conflict is in between

1:06.2

competent owners of companies operating profitably and union members who want a large share.

1:11.6

It's not forward in the 1960s versus the guys on the assembly line. It's not the secure versus the

1:19.0

hungry. It looks more like lost people without vision. That would be the studios versus

1:25.7

aggrieved people feeling genuine grief. That would be the actors. That would be SAG after on strike.

1:32.1

Is this dominating the news in Los Angeles and is there any indication that the media is taking

1:39.2

sides in this? Good evening to you, Jeff. Meet me, John. It is the top story aside from any

1:46.2

breaking news, but even then it often dominates whatever stories are out there on TV, on radio,

1:52.3

on the websites that are dedicated to local news and the newspapers, of course. The reason it dominates

1:58.1

the way it does is because Hollywood, Los Angeles and much of Southern California could be considered

2:04.4

a company town, certainly around the LA area. Not only do you have all those actors who are on strike

2:09.8

and all those writers who are now on strike, but you have people who work in various aspects that

2:15.2

support those people or are impacted by the work, whether it's directors and producers or

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