Deadline.com Is a Hollywood insider/industry periodical. The message coming out of Hollywood is very carefully controlled. There are many coded "quotes" in their articles. In this one, the argument is primarily about ANONYMOUS writers getting screwed by studios (called The Lannisters) hogging distribution profits. However, there is a secondary concern for the people who write the propaganda to control the masses, which they are even more worried about in 2019/2020 called the White Walkers. We know huge sums of money are paid from the machine, into Hollywood, to finance this whole cultural decline. We know this money comes from Giants in the Bad Actor domain.
Maybe someone else can read the tea leaves better. This is a very unusual publication owned by PMC Brands who control; Rolling Stone, Variety, SPY, and many other "cultural" publications. Does anyone else have a better view of the secondary message?
WGA = Writer's Guild of America
https://deadline.com/2019/03/anonymous-writer-2-wga-going-after-lannisters-white-walkers-approach-1202585354/
"Sending this because I know many of you are on the fence, and I believe our WGA leadership is going about this the wrong way.
Another writer I know said it best: we are going after the Lannisters when the White Walkers are coming.
The agencies have made up their minds to keep packaging fees and their affiliate arms. Hard line. Willing to negotiate within that sandbox, but not getting rid of it. But WGA leadership is also not budging. Our leadership has said to them in private that this is war and they’re ready to incur some “casualties” (WGA word not mine) for this fight. So, it’s gonna be a matter of how long the war lasts and who it will burden the most.
Let’s play this out:
Many upper level writers are already on shows, under overalls, some are directors or actors who will still be repped at Big Four, upper levels will be just fine. They have existing connections. Finding jobs will be much less difficult for them.
The burden will fall on middle and lower levels. And no one knows what this burden will look like but agencies are prepared to hunker down for a long time. The Big Four will continue business, and will continue to retain their usual director, actor, athlete, musician, digital clients, and will continue to do everything in their power to leverage against The Great Four (ATT/Warner, Disney/Fox, Comcast, prob soon to be CBS/Viacom), who btw are all consolidating to leverage against The Greatest Five (Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook).
Meanwhile, us writers, in the middle of a larger corporate nuclear arms race, will be leaving the few agencies with nukes, and will swarm en masse to smaller agencies and managers. It’s not like writing will stop. We’ll still be writing, but with the representation of smaller agencies with less leverage against the Great Four and the Greatest Five.
All of this will go down and likely last right up to our 2020 studio negotiations."