{"id":1060652,"date":"2023-05-26T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9033735"},"modified":"2023-05-26T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:49:17","slug":"eric-thurm-on-the-hollywood-writers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/05\/26\/eric-thurm-on-the-hollywood-writers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Thurm on the Hollywood Writers\u2019 Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Eric Thurm on the Hollywood Writers&#039; Strike' data-link='https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/eric-thurm-on-the-hollywood-writers-strike\/' data-summary='Many corporate news reporters seem unable to present a labor action as other than an unwonted interruption of a natural order.' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9033738\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9033738\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9033738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GQ-WGA-350x419.png\" alt=\"GQ: All About the Writers Strike: What Does the WGA Want and Why Are They Fighting So Hard for it?\" width=\"350\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GQ-WGA-350x419.png 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GQ-WGA-600x718.png 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GQ-WGA-640x766.png 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GQ-WGA.png 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9033738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>GQ<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/writers-strike-2023-wga-explained\">5\/5\/23<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week on <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>: Going on strike is something that people with no personal experience are comfortable depicting as frivolous and selfish. That extends to many corporate news reporters, who appear unable to present a labor action as other than, first and foremost, an unwonted interruption of a natural order. However else they explain the issues at stake, or humanistically portray individual strikers, the overarching narrative is that workers are pressing their luck, and that owners who make their money off the efforts of those workers are not to be questioned.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a weird presentation, whether it&#8217;s baristas or dockworkers or TV and movie writers. As we record on May 25, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wga.org\/\">Writers Guild<\/a> strike is on its 23rd day, and having the intended effect of shutting down production on sets around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Thurm wrote a useful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/writers-strike-2023-wga-explained\">explainer<\/a> on the WGA strike for <strong>GQ<\/strong>. Thurm is campaigns coordinator for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nwu.org\/home-page\/\">National Writers Union<\/a>, and a steering committee member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/freelancesolidarity.org\/\">Freelance Solidarity Project<\/a>. 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Strike' data-link='https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/eric-thurm-on-the-hollywood-writers-strike\/' data-summary='Many corporate news reporters seem unable to present a labor action as other than an unwonted interruption of a natural order.' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'><\/div><div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='recommendations' data-title='Eric Thurm on the Hollywood Writers&#039; Strike' data-link='https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/eric-thurm-on-the-hollywood-writers-strike\/' data-summary='Many corporate news reporters seem unable to present a labor action as other than an unwonted interruption of a natural order.' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'><\/div><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/eric-thurm-on-the-hollywood-writers-strike\/\">Eric Thurm on the Hollywood Writers&#8217; Strike<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/eric-thurm-on-the-hollywood-writers-strike\/\">CounterSpin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many corporate news reporters seem unable to present a labor action as other than an unwonted interruption of a natural order.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/eric-thurm-on-the-hollywood-writers-strike\/\">Eric Thurm on the Hollywood Writers\u2019 Strike<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,259,554,8317,453,2975,262,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060652"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342877,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060652\/revisions\/1342877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}