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Old school Robin Thicke, before he got famous and before tickets to his show cost $60!!

Editorial

This is my opinion on the daily potential cost of the writers strike. I used this article on the strike as well.


According to FilmLA, this writers strike could cost the Los Angeles economy $20 million a day if the strike continues. I’m sure the studios know the strike could possibly cost them millions of dollars but they are holding out until the strikers loose their passion and fire for their cause. But the writers strike in 1988 lasted 22 weeks and there are more people rallying behind the writers today. According to the article in the LA Times a single episode of a drama costs about $3 million to produce, employs 300 people and takes eight days to shoot. An episode of a half-hour sitcom costs $1.5 million, employs an average of 88 employees and has a five-day shooting cycle. If the strike continues 15,000 jobs will be lost and millions of dollars. The strikers have withdrawn their proposal for double DVD pay, which was the biggest road block in negotiations, but still want producers to grant the union jurisdiction for most new-media writing and they also insisted on a proposal that would allow them to reuse movies or TV shows on any platform for promotional purposes and gain residual payment.
The strikers aren’t asking for much of these billion dollar studios and in the end the strikers will be the ones hurting, the guild will only be able to pay them for so long and soon enough they will loose their cars, their homes and won’t be able to simply support their families. Christmas is right around the corner and maybe the Ghost of Christmas past should give these Ebenezer Scrooge aka studio heads a look into the lives of the writer’s families, those they are truly affecting

Dramatic Narrative

This is a dramatic narrative I found.

My trip to the bookstore

I walked into the bookstore to get a dissecting kit for my bio lab. I asked one of the workers where I could find the kit and instead of actually telling me where I could find it he just pointed. I walked in the general direction of where he pointed and found the aisle that looked most like where a bio kit would be. I looked down to the second shelf and saw the kit priced at $11.25. 1. I didn’t want to spend that much money on tools that were going to dissect a dead pig and 2.You only need one kit per group so I was kind of thinking maybe my partner bought it. I thought back to his attendance record and test scores and realized I would be better off if I just bought it. The sticker on the rectangular blue box said no returns if opened, so if he actually did buy it, I would be returning it. I walked over to the checkout line stopping to look at the cute new hoodies in the bookstore I couldn’t afford. I don’t get how a sweatshirt with just four letters, CSUN, could actually be priced at $70. So I walk to the line and wait as the girl in front of me takes forever to find her wallet. It’s finally my turn. I get to the counter, the girl tells me the price, $11.79, and I realize I forgot my wallet in class.

Investigative Story

This is the investigative story I found.

These reporters went to CIA prisons in Afganistan and spoke with prisoners, so going outside of the country to expose this story is above and beyond. They also spoke with several CIA sources, who are unamed in the story, but these sources give them details on the sometimes brutal interogation techniques used on these prisoners.