What Next TBD: What the Writers' Strike Is Really About

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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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 If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think You Know Disney Plus? Think Again?
0:05.0	Stream everything from hit musicals like Encanto.
0:09.0	We must protect our family! This is my chance! I will save the magic!
0:15.0	To the years best movies like award-winning the banshee's of Inish Erin.
0:19.0	I just don't like you no more. Don't like me yesterday.
0:23.0	Think You Know Disney Plus? Think Again.
0:26.0	18 Plus subscription-acquired TZZ supply.
0:57.0	I think of my friend Michelle Dean, as someone who has made it.
1:00.0	She's a journalist and a screenwriter, and she wrote a big deal TV show.
1:04.0	I'm the co-creator of the act, which was a limited series on Hulu the Air in 2019.
1:10.0	It told the story of Jipsy Rose Blanchard and her mother Deity Blanchard.
1:17.0	Oh, sweet pea. I know sometimes you won't want to be like everybody else.
1:23.0	But you know what?
1:26.0	I like you, special.
1:29.0	Deity had what's known as Munchausen's Biproxy.
1:32.0	She abused Jipsy for years, pretending that the girl was sick,
1:36.0	taking her to doctor after doctor or for treatment after treatment.
1:40.0	Jipsy eventually struck back by having her boyfriend kill her mother.
1:45.0	The act is a fictionalized version of their real life.
1:49.0	Jipsy is now serving prison time.
1:53.0	Michelle first wrote a viral Buzzfeed news story about the family in 2016,
1:58.0	then developed it into the act.
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