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    Mary McNamara: We can't afford another writers' strike. Not Hollywood, not LA, not the country

    LOS ANGELES — I'm going to state the obvious because the obvious clearly needs stating: We cannot afford a writers' strike. The entertainment industry can't afford it, Los Angeles can't afford it and neither can the many parts of the country where TV and film production help fuel the local economy. We are just now emerging from a three-year pandemic that, in addition to its much more terrible ...
    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2023 4 minutes
    Writer Angela Shelton and other picketers protest outside the Paramount Pictures lot in Los Angeles during the writers’ strike of 2007-08..

    LOS ANGELES — I'm going to state the obvious because the obvious clearly needs stating:

    We cannot afford a writers' strike.

    The entertainment industry can't afford it, Los Angeles can't afford it and neither can the many parts of the country where TV and film production help fuel the local economy.

    We are just now emerging from a three-year pandemic that, in addition to its much more terrible consequences, shut down film and television production for the better part of a year and then made it much more costly and complicated.

    We are coping with ever-deepening political division, post-pandemic inflation, general job insecurity

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