If there’s one thing that gets taken for granted these days more than most, it is the written word. Whether we’re talking about books, newspapers, blogs, online news sites and any form of literary material you can think of.

This week the Writers Guild, responsible for most of the TV sitcoms, has decided to go on strike in lieu of salary issues.

Now, I’m glad to see writers taking a stand in regard to what they’re really worth but then I started to really think about what this strike really meant.

How essential are we, the writers, in the bigger scheme of things? If all the journalists in the world decided to go on a Nation Wide strike for more money – would anyone care? Besides the fact that no one would be reporting on it (since they’d all be on strike) would anyone care as much about that? Mainly since the news of the screenwriters striking seems to be the top story of discussion this week.

Do writers only matter if they’re feeding the Massive Television Franchise with Desperate Housewives scripts?

In the long run of things, the script crisis isn’t that big of a deal. Once the dispute is settled and everything is back to normal you’ll be able to catch the entire T.V. series, minus commercials and writers’ strike on DVD at your local movie rental store, or your favorite online DVD rental shipping company.

All writers (regardless of genre) should be apart of the Writers Guild, script writers, journalists, novel writers, and poets alike in a united front like war buddies, except the only difference instead of battle scars we’ll have paper cuts. That would be one interesting after protest party.
—Eming Piansay