Hollywood’s Dirty Secrets Laid Bare on Social Media: Erin Lowry

The Writers Guild of America will soon mark 100 days of its strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which includes industry majors like Walt Disney Co., Netflix Inc., Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. This would match a 2007 strike that unfolded at a time when digital media was just emerging as a worry for creative professionals.

The media landscape has been transformed in the intervening years: In 2007, Netflix was still mailing people DVDs, X (till recently Twitter) was barely a year old, Apple released its first iPhone and Instagram didn’t exist. The only reason I even remember that ...