{"id":1924684,"date":"2023-05-04T23:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T03:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-writers-on-strike-accuse-streaming-giants-of-treating-them-like-uber-drivers\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T23:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T03:43:23","slug":"hollywood-writers-on-strike-accuse-streaming-giants-of-treating-them-like-uber-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-writers-on-strike-accuse-streaming-giants-of-treating-them-like-uber-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Writers on Strike Accuse Streaming Giants of Treating Them Like Uber Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhollywood-writers-on-strike-accuse-streaming-giants-of-treating-them-like-uber-drivers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1924684&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> \t\t\t\tStriking Hollywood writers are accusing the major streamers of treating them like disposable gig workers and are encouraging consumers everywhere to \u201ccancel your subscriptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Marjorie David, the vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West, told The Daily Beast that streamers like Amazon are mistreating their armies of writers, calling it a \u201cterrible thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>   \u201cThe streamers don\u2019t care about anything, they think we\u2019re Uber drivers: \u2018Come in, do your job, go home, that\u2019s great. You\u2019re free,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cNot good. We don\u2019t want to be free from health and pension. We don\u2019t want to be free from paying our rent. We don\u2019t want to be free from buying a house or sending our kids to school or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Movie writer Ed Horowitz is encouraging consumers everywhere to show their support for striking writers by sticking it to the streamers.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cCancel your subscriptions,\u201d he told The Daily Beast. \u201cIf people out there started canceling their subscriptions and not watching stuff that is on streamers, that would have a huge impact, if people were to do that in numbers. If enough people cancel their subscriptions\u2014even in the short run in solidarity\u2014that will actually make a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> As Breitbart News reported, Hollywood writers walked off the job late Monday after the WGA failed to reach a new contract with the studios. Among the many points of contention is compensation in the age of streaming media, with the union arguing that writers are getting the shaft despite the bounty of new shows on services including Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p> The first casualties of the strike were the late-night network comedy shows, including the ones hosted by left-wing comedians Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. NBC\u2019s Saturday Night Live is also going on hiatus starting this week.<\/p>\n<p> Follow David Ng on Twitter\u00a0@HeyItsDavidNg. Have a tip? Contact me at\u00a0dng@breitbart.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking Hollywood writers are accusing the major streamers of treating them like disposable gig workers and are encouraging consumers everywhere to \u201ccancel your subscriptions.\u201d Marjorie David, the vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West, told The Daily Beast that streamers like Amazon are mistreating their armies of writers, calling it a \u201cterrible thing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1924685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6527,10774,8357,4361,17389,4522,13156,13487,16657],"class_list":["post-1924684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-accuse","tag-drivers","tag-giants","tag-hollywood","tag-streaming","tag-strike","tag-treating","tag-uber","tag-writers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}