Published on November 14, 2007 By CLWebb In Entertainment
You know, I find the whole writers’ strike idea fascinating. Not the “reasons why” but the fact that it can actually make the impact that it IS making. When else in the history of the world could this decision of a bunch of people who write stories for a luxury appliance make such an impact? Are we so engrossed in losing ourselves, in escaping reality, in ignoring our families, in shirking our responsibilities, in wasting time?

Now I realize that this strike has been viewed as the “enflamed tip of a much deeper, insidious infection” (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/its-not-just-the-writer_b_72376.html) but think about this. If we viewed television shows as they should be (mostly a waste of time to escape for a few minutes) then a lack of new wastes of time would mean nothing.

I guess it has really alarmed me that this has been taken as such a big deal.

Comments
on Nov 14, 2007
I think the media's making it out to be a bigger deal than it is. I haven't heard many friends discuss it or seen many bloggers discussing it in depth.

I agree with the sentiment and am personally in no hurry for them to return.
on Nov 14, 2007
And now, the new reality series - "Who wants to be a TV writer?"

I actually liked the idea of "Nobody's Watching..."