Michael Cieply: Will A Long Writers Strike Sideline Hollywood In The Culture Wars?
deadline.comOne month into the writers strike, there’s little for a bystander to add about the issues, prospects or relative staying power of the opponents.
Deadline’s reporters and contributors have done an admirable job on that score. But having intensively covered two prior such strikes, in 1988 and in 2007, I’ll risk one modest observation about the current conflict: If it continues as at present for another few months, it will begin to shift the cultural balance of power.
In the past, at least in the modern era, Hollywood’s labor wars haven’t had much bearing on the socio-political life of the country as a whole.
Whether guild writers plied their craft or sat out for five months, George Herbert Walker Bush was going to bury Michael Dukakis in the presidential election of 1988; that’s how the current was running.
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