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The Strike to Keep Hollywood Human, with Adam Conover

Offline with Jon Favreau

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The Shift to the New Media

The writers guild used to only cover movies, then television was invented. Now we have to go back and get the money because residuals for streaming are far, far lower than they were for broadcaster basic cable. The other thing that's happened is the shift to the new media as a way to separate us from most of the work that we used to do. We can pay you a fraction of what you used to make to do most of the same work to write the entire season.

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