For the first time since 1960, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are on a simultaneous strike. The volatile combination of unfair wages, lack of streaming representation, problematic implementation of AI tech, and more led industry members to protest the world's most extensive entertainment studios.
Bailey's piece , in this writer's personal opinion, does not say or do anything that warranted a response like this from Warner Bros. Discovery. For starters, as Deadline points out in their article on the piece's removal, it is "not the norm for corporate coverage in general" for an op-ed like Bailey's article to "reach out" to the subject of a piece.
Anonymous Hollywood Executives Boast About Starving Writers on Strike You might be wondering what the Zaslav/GQ controversy has to do with the ongoing strikes. Well, the above is just one example of how some studios are presenting themselves as either not understanding or not caring about how their business decisions affect the lives of the people they work with.
Disney CEO's Comments Will Only Embolden the WGA and SAG Strikes The day that SAG-AFTRA announced they would be going on strike is also the day when The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger decided to make some highly questionable comments on the strike, calling the two strikes "disturbing" and "unrealistic":