None of the studio chiefs would talk on the record, but if I were to sum up their views, I’d put it this way: The future is too uncertain for us to give anything away.
This is simply another blatant example of the economic and social distortions that the corporate media themselves have engendered over the last 30 years in our society. They promulgate the misconception that owners' and managers' proprietary interest in commercial enterprises is somehow greater than or superior to the interest of workers.
Now these media "aristocrats" are using this same misconception they have disseminated as a tool for cutting out the interests of society and workers from the commercial enterprise they have been entrusted with.
This is bald theft, not only of the benefits and sustenance -- money -- the writers are entitled to by virtue of their participation in the media enterprises, but it is an attempt to steal the very idea of democratic participation from the business sector of our society. So the assault on democracy continues, abetted by corporate media in broadcasting and in their own management policies.
Isn't it time We, The People, the sovereigns in our system, called upon our "representatives" to intervene on behalf of our democratic rights and principles, and for the workers?
Whenever a new technology has arrived, Hollywood has seen it as a grave threat to prosperity, whether it was the coming of talkies, the growth of television or the arrival of the VCR, the greatest gravy train of all, which the studios immediately attempted to sue out of existence.
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