When I say that the current story in the news cycle about extending the strike until people go homeless feels like cheap fearmongering in support of a simple bluff, I'm basing that on years of studying workers movements, and examining previous media industry strikes.
For the studios, this is professional. For the writers, it is both professional and personal.
For the studios, it's about their bottom line. For the writers, it's about the roofs over their heads and the food on their tables.
This recent bit of fearmongering is about convincing the writers that they have more to lose that the studios.
Here's the thing, though, that's simply not true.