The Long-Term Damage From a Hollywood Labor Stoppage

For the first time in six decades, Hollywood writers and actors are striking at the same time. This is bad for everyone.

Actor Wanda Sykes, right, with Writers Guild of America members and supporters on a picket line outside NBCUniversal headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, US, on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Hollywood screenwriters, on strike for higher pay since May 2, are keeping morale up and pressure on the studios by trying to make their picket lines as entertaining as their programs. — Actor Wanda Sykes, right, with Writers Guild of America members and supporters on a picket line outside NBCUniversal headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, US, on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Hollywood screenwriters, on strike for higher pay since May 2, are keeping morale up and pressure on the studios by trying to make their picket lines as entertaining as their programs.Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg

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July 14, 2023 at 3:18 PM UTC