Arin, you’re right, *most* of these writers get paid very little, it’s been very interesting watching a handful of vlogs by normal-everyday writers who say they also work part time jobs at the gym around the corner to make ends meet. Not everyone is a Seth McFarlane or a BJ Novak… so this would be a great time to give the ultimate “Fuck You” to the old media, and do what they want, how they want.

Do you have any idea how fast an online series written by the people who worked on the Office, for example, would spread online. I’d support it in a second, and all I’d have to do to support it is watch it, because it’s based off viewers and downloads and page hits.

And before D. goes off on a rant about me about growing up and getting a clue, I worked at NBC, and I was close enough to have an idea of what’s going on… old media is dead… they just don’t know it yet.

These writers don’t need a broadcasting corporation telling them what and how they should write, or how much of a profit they’ll make if their lucky.

I’m sure a few writers have done this, but it would have been a great message if the moment they striked, they began pooling together to push hard a few online weekly shows – carried signs with the web address of those shows, all the news crews and passing people would check it out, word would spread, money would begin to come in, and a point would be made… that the networks need the writers, more then the writers need the networks.