Feeling a Little Like Norma Rae...

Things that I miss/will miss because of the Writers' Strike:
-Late Night with Conan O'Brien
-The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
-The Colbert Report
-Real Time with Bill Maher (which I think would be in reruns anyway at this point)
-The Late Show with David Letterman
-The Office
-30 Rock
-Saturday Night Live (though it hasn't been good in years)
-Scrubs (it's the last season!)

...and so on.





OH WELL. This TV fan is breaking out her The Office and Scrubs DVDs, listening to old Real Time with Bill Maher podcasts and using this time to catch up on reruns of everything else, because at the end of the day, there's no show without the writers. I wouldn't have gotten into most of these shows had it not been for "new media" like DVDs, webisodes and online streams that let me keep up with multiple shows that air in the same timeslot. This video proves the writers really are the core of our favorite programs.

Here's another video, made by the Writer's Guild of America, in case you aren't sure what the strike is about.



UNION.


-Meryn

P.S. Ellen Pompeo (known to most of us as Meredith Grey) said not to watch the online episodes of shows because writers aren't being paid for them. This makes me wonder if I shouldn't watch the reruns because then the networks are still getting ad revenue. And should I not listen to podcasts and watch DVDs because writers are unfairly compensated for those too?