Guest column: Why writers shouldn't back down in their fight with agencies
Racial tensions boiling; immigrants thrown on the fire. Anti-Semitism on the rise. Poison in the water. Industrialists raking in billions while the working poor struggle to make even the most modest of ends meet. No discernable signs of a middle class. Yes, these are the circumstances of E.L.
But over the last three decades we’ve seen the undermining of those safeguards , which included the dismantling of the firewall between the networks and studios. Remember when creators truly owned their shows? When even a modest hit guaranteed a massive return to the people who actually came up with the idea for it? Those days are long gone, and anyone who doesn’t see a direct correlation between those things is being willfully ignorant.
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