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She knew what she was doing and didn't care. The only reason she walked back on it was it was causing her harm and that's seems to be all she cares about.
I just don't understand how the late night talk show hosts were able to do it last strike but the daytime talkshow host wasn't allowed to do it this time? What's the difference?
Last time, the shows went to air without the writers. IIRC the way it worked was that they did away with sketches and monologues so there was no writing, basically just interviews and improv. Leno did write his own monologue at one point, despite being a WGA member and deservedly caught shit for it.
Letterman and Conan paid for the writers salary out of their own pocket for the duration of the strike.
SNL and Colbert set up live shows to raise money for the striking writers.
All of this was done in solidarity with the writers, which were never replaced or supplemented throughout the entire 08-09 strike.
Barrymore and Maher were gonna hire scabs.
Ah makes sense, so it was possible but they just weren't doing it right.
She's a woman?
The problem with that argument is that Bill Maher received similar backlash for announcing he would return without writers, only to U Turn as well.
The long and short of it is that, 3 writers felt disposable by Drew Barrymore and didn't want to return to a working environment where they could be thrown under the bus at any moment.
Thank you for additional context.
Right, but that's exactly my point, the boycott worked. If you're waiting for everyone to do the right thing all the time you're going to be waiting a long time.
And if she was a normal working class woman it would be easy to forgive her. But she is a 125 Million Dollar super rich that only looks after herself and would gladly do it again if she could get away with it.
She is not getting another chance because that requires learning from your mistakes and given her social class there is no reason to believe she did.
I think "forgive" is a strong word that implies some sort of relationship here, I don't need a relationship built on trust to consume content. If I refused every good and service that I didn't think had my best interest in mind I'd have starved long ago lol.
All I'm saying is if the standard for boycott is "someone did something I didn't like one time" this community wouldn't exist
You keep talking about this like it's a boycott, but it's not.
She acted in an incredibly shitty way towards the people who work for her, and they decided they could do better. That's not a boycott, that's just consequences.
What do you want to do, force those writers to go back to work for a shitty boss?
Think you should read my initial comment again, I'm specifically talking about the reaction in this thread.
I think you have an interesting point!