What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What the Writers' Strike Is Really About
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When television and screenwriters went on strike in 2007, Netflix had just started offering the option to stream content. This week, the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike to update pay structures for the streaming era—and to get ahead of A.I. and the changes it may bring.
Guests:
Michelle Dean, television writer and journalist
Anousha Sakoui, entertainment industry writer for the Los Angeles Times
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| 0:00.0 | I made you think you was real. |
| 0:02.0 | My name is Caden Sinclair. |
| 0:04.0 | Some people call us American royalty. |
| 0:06.0 | We were Liars. |
| 0:08.0 | A new series on Prime Video. |
| 0:10.0 | We were happy. We wanted for nothing. |
| 0:12.0 | Based on the best-selling novel. |
| 0:15.0 | Something terrible happened last summer, |
| 0:17.0 | and I have no memory of what or who hurt me. |
| 0:20.0 | No one in my family will tell me. |
| 0:22.7 | When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on |
| 0:28.9 | Prime Video. Hey guys, a quick disclosure before we start. We are talking about the Writers Guild of |
| 0:36.2 | America Strike in today's episode, |
| 0:38.8 | and Slate's staff journalists, like me, are part of the WGA. We're not striking, though, |
| 0:44.9 | it's just the television and screenwriters. We are not covered under their contract. Okay, |
| 0:50.8 | here's the show. |
| 0:59.7 | I think of my friend Michelle Dean as someone who has made it. |
| 1:03.8 | She's a journalist and a screenwriter, and she wrote a big deal TV show. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm the co-creator of the Act, which was a limited series on Hulu that aired in 2019. |
| 1:14.3 | It told the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dedy, Blanchard. |
| 1:18.8 | Oh, sweetie. |
| 1:22.2 | I know sometimes you want to be like everybody else. |
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