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@moryan
Nov 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
I have a newsletter (info below); it's 1 way to find me & my work, also on instagram (moryan66 there) & moryan.com Genuine love to you weirdos, there was some yikes stuff on here sometimes, but I met & talked & liked & loved a lot of ya & damn you made me laugh 💚🌺
welp looks like I'm going to have to just read books or something... It is a paperback book cove...
I may spend my newfound free time revisiting a classic from my childhood, which is definitely not about any ragingly stupid rich jackasses: In the style of a cute chil...
love this energy for the five remaining Twitter employees It is Winnie the Pooh and P...
have not figured out mastodon yet but just posted a photo of my haunted dollhouse on insta
#nailedit quality #content
(moryan66 over there)
HEY! I posted some thoughts about the end of this dumb great hellsite on my newsletter, which is free. you can read it online if you don't care to sign up, do you and be well! burner-account.ghost.io/rip-twitter-i-…

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Jul 16, 2023
The education going on during Hwd strikes is important 💚👊🏻🔥🪧Many people don’t know what incomes of Hwd workers are. Having talked to thousands of them, fact is, many live paycheck to paycheck & know their entire career could go away tomorrow for reasons to beyond their control
I def tried to make connections btw larger labor & exploitation issues in US/world & what has been standard operating procedure--but getting even worse--in Hollywood. Dunno, might get this first sentence put on a T-shirt & wear it daily. Anyway, from #BurnItDown (pinned tweet): A passage from page 319 of the book Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood: If you think the comparison between a warehouse worker and a Hollywood assistant, grip, or writer are unfounded, you’re mistaken. I’ll remind you again that, at a number of entertainment companies, overages that exceeded the food budget were taken out of the assistants’ pay. Many of these folks were, at the time, making just about minimum wage in Los Angeles, a city in which living costs have gone up tremendously during the years I’ve covered Hollywood. “Unpredictable hours are bad for m...
I may also be yelling this from the top of large structures for an infinity number of years/centuries: "If you think the comparison between a warehouse worker and a
Hollywood assistant, grip, or writer are unfounded, you’re mistaken."
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Jul 15, 2023
👇🏻 this. I repeat a similar sentiment often in my book & I will be screaming it from the rooftops until the day I die: These are **choices.** These are active decisions—not the disembodied hand of fate imposing terrible outcomes. They want this. These. Are. CHOICES
An attitude I come across all the time on many Hollywood fronts amounts to this: “couldn’t be helped–it had to be that way.” No, it *could* be helped. You *chose* to make it that way. Don’t passive-voice yr way out of this: You (company or person) MADE A DECISION & a choice. 🔥🌋
Person/company with meaningful power: “Well, it is what it is, what are you gonna do?”
Me, so many times: “Literally anything but what you did do! (Or specifically chose NOT to do!)”
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Jul 13, 2023
In 2021, when he was paid $246 million (yes, for 1 yr), I noted in my book Zaslav made $675,000 per day. Using data from #PayUpHollywood, avg WB support staff at the time (SIDE NOTE THEY RARELY WORK 52 WKS/YR) made $185/day. That was him making 3600x more than entry level workers
In Burn It Down, I quoted Popular Information: In 1965 "American CEOs made 15 times more than the avg worker. Today, CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest low-wage employers like Starbucks is closer to 670 to 1, accdng to a report published by Institute for Policy Studies"+
PopularInfo again: "Pay ratio at Starbucks is even more extreme. Starbucks’ former CEO, Kevin Johnson, raked in $20.4 million in 2021––1,579 times more than what typical Starbucks worker took home.” All context for this: Hollywood CEO-to-entry-worker disparities are usually WORSE
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May 30, 2023
Hello! A bit of housekeeping: I’m creating a new thread to pin. It’ll be a repository for info on my book, links to podcast appearances, reviews, events, interviews etc. Thanks for your patience on the phenomenon known as First-Time Author Promoting Their New Book a Whole Bunch.
And here's a @chicagotribune interview about why I wrote the book & what I hope it accomplishes with @phillipstribune -- it was such a full circle moment, given that I worked at the Trib for 13 years. Thanks for the delightful chat, Michael! chicagotribune.com/entertainment/…
I spoke with the fab @Snoodit & @TheFienPrint for @THR's TV's Top 5 Podcast about Burn It Down, Lost & much more. @sepinwall was also a guest in a diff segment (nice!). Anyway, I had a blast & thanks for a wonderful conversation, Lesley & Dan! hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tvs…
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May 4, 2023
Having covered 07-08 strike & other near-strikes, I can say--I've never seen the guilds stick together like this. Usually AMPTP plays divide & conquer but that appears to be a non-starter now. I think that'll likely stay the case & I'm not surprised, given state of the industry
This level of open & loud solidarity--it's notable this time. Again, doesn't surprise me, not just due to the changes affecting all in Hollywood--but also, the unions have evolved. Back when, it used to be that AMPTP could play wealthiest WGA members against the rest. Not now.
Playing field has changed on AMPTP end too--w/ arrival of streamers, there are many things they want that WGA hates & vice versa. Sharing data? Silicon Valley *hates* that. Really wondering how this all plays out. I genuinely have no idea. Except "probably a long strike."
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Dec 13, 2022
if zaslav's goal is to infuriate the creative community, A+++ /no notes
honestly gutted so much HBO/Max fare (incl Gordita Chronicles, Love Life, Minx, Batgirl in addtn to WW etc--many from marginalized creatives--canceled, unreleased or DISAPPEARED (at least for now). Hard not to wonder if it's a shot across the bow re DGA/WGA contracts coming up
I am a galaxy brain industry executive, hear me out

1 give people LESS content
2 make it MORE monochromatic
3 piss off the people who create the content
4 ???
5 profit!!!! Winona Ryder in Heathers says "Well I guess I picked th
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