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Mo Ryan Profile picture
@moryan
May 30, 2023 • 37 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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…
I was thrilled to talk to critic, author & journalist @Deggans for @NPR about why I wrote #BurnItDown & myths that linger in the industry: "There's an unspoken rule in some people's heads - 'That person is too considerate to be a genius.'" thanks friend!npr.org/2023/06/03/118…
From Booklist's review of #BurnItDown: "Film and television journalist and critic Ryan has written the kind of book the phrase 'searing indictment' was invented for: a straight-shooting, rigorously researched and documented exposé of Hollywood’s culture of abuse." +
Booklist part 2: "This appears to be the book Ryan’s career has been building toward: she’s never shied away from exposing Hollywood’s darker side. This powerful, angry, shocking & important work should grip all readers interested in the truth about the entertainment industry."
Library Journal review: "By breaking down the various myths entertainment workers are told to believe, the author dismantles the argument that there is no changing the business; she also offers solutions. Readers will come away with a better understanding of what creatives" +
LibraryJournal 2 "have gone through to make shows &films people love. Some readers may even recognize similar harmful behaviors in their own work environments. VERDICT: All workers, as well as TV& movie buffs, can appreciate this well-told book of essays abt labor in Hollywood"
My book, Burn It Down, is out. It's real. I'm a published author. I have to get a new, fancier monocle. In all seriousness, my gratitude to all who bought it already & to the many who made it possible. And I want to share something incredible special with you all. Free to all.
For years, I tried to write an essay about what Charisma Carpenter's work on screen & off meant to me. What Cordelia Chase meant to me. I got there in the end. This is very personal & I'm so proud of it. I hope you'll read An Angel in Hell at The Audacity. audacity.substack.com/p/an-angel-in-…
When 😬 revelations emerge about an industry person, often the discourse revolves around that person. NOT people who did fine work despite enduring awful things. Whether or not you watched the show I write about, witness an attempt to reclaim the narrative audacity.substack.com/p/an-angel-in-…
3 yrs ago, this thread on #SleepyHollow went viral. For everyone who read & added to that painful conversation, I see you. I honor you. I will die mad about some SH things that occurred. If u are a former fan & *don't* want to read that chapter, I get it.
Regardless of whether former fans want to read that chapter, I want everyone to know Black women, femmes & nb people were a huge reason for that show's success. They fed the social media & were the bedrock of the fandom. I am Irish. I don't forget shit. I will *never* forget that
I talked to @realityblurred -- who has been rigorously & thoroughly writing about reality & documentary TV for decades -- about my book. Reality, scripted, whatever it is, it's all storytelling & none of it has to cater to abusive people. Thank you, Andy! realityblurred.com/realitytv/2023…
Really enjoyed this chat w @ScottNeumyer for @byshondaland! "Unless we make it clear that these companies & systems & people allow [this behavior] to happen, we’re going to keep having these repetitive conversations. And that, to me, kind of got old." shondaland.com/inspire/books/…
A book-related ask: @SFdirewolf is a badass & you should read her great memoir, Year of the Tiger. She founded @DisVisibility & she's an important voice in my book. She needs the community's help & you can donate here if you're able to do so. Thank you! 🔥gofundme.com/f/alice-wong-s…
Well damn, my book got reviewed in the New York Times! Whaaaat!? I'm genuinely grateful: Alexandra Jacobs is such a lively and lovely writer and engaged with the book fair & square & I appreciate that 🔥nytimes.com/2023/06/11/boo…
Burn It Down is a New York Times best-seller. I am so grateful to you -- to everyone who has reached out with kind words, to everyone who worked on the book, to everyone who bought it -- you fucking rock. I'm over the moon. THANK YOU 🔥💚😍🥂 It is the New York Times Best Seller List for Print Hardcovers, dated June 25, 2023. Number 11 in Non-fiction is Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan and that is circled and a box of text in red says IT ME
The book's rock star team got me on a zoom today & I thought it was to discuss next phases of marketing/promo. Nope, TWAS A RUSE. It was to share this news with me. So now everyone at @MarinerBooks including the publisher has seen my cry face, which was always the dream 😭😉🔥🍾
Talked to @TaraAriano about #BurnItDown type topics, esp those related to comedy realms. In this "as told to," I address creativity, humor & balancing the need to take chances w the kind of toxicity that's too often rewarded in comedy realms. I LOVE this: cracked.com/article_38524_…
Stephen Armstrong of the UK's @Telegraph interviewed me & it was as great conversation -- and as a fellow journalist, I appreciate the deployment of a well-constructed kicker. Read to the end! That last line! 🙌🏻🔥
I'll be adding more links to podcasts & book coverage to this chain, and one I'm super happy to share is this interview with @kimmasters on @kcrw's The Business podcast. Thanks for this great chat, Kim! kcrw.com/culture/shows/…
Oh it would probably have been helpful if I'd actually shared the link to the @telegraph interview about Burn It Down: Here you go! telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/burn-it-d…
So @sagaftra has joined WGA in Hot Strike Summer. First dual industry strike in decades & 1st SAG strike since 2000. I get why. Always been tough for most actors & creatives & as I describe in my book, it's only gotten tougher. Not easy to strike but the time has come. Go get 'em Hiam Abbass as Marcia on Succession says "Obviously, I have some requests."
Great piece from @poniewozik on the wider implications of the entertainment industry strikes: "In the end, Hollywood's fight isn't far from the threats to many of us in today's economy." [gift link so hopefully will work for most folks, even w/o sub] nytimes.com/2023/07/16/art…
I spoke with @WBEZreset @WBEZ about the factors leading to the two entertainment industry strikes. Thanks for a great chat 🔥🙌🏻 wbez.org/stories/hollyw…
@WBEZreset @WBEZ I was among those who talked to @elizblair of @NPR @npratc about the **yikes** situation of films and TV shows getting yanked and disappeared. npr.org/2023/07/24/118…
For no particular reason, reminding you I have an email newsletter, Burner Account and here are all the places I am online fwiw I’ve been posting a fair bit on instagram these days, main/stories even reels wooooo anyway! 🔥🙌🏻💚🦋burner-account.ghost.io/page/2/
linktr.ee/maureenryan
Yo! I will be on @ABCNewsLive ABC News Live tonight between 7 pm -8 pm ET (6pm - 7pm CT) talking about the Hollywood strikes, pent-up frustrations among workers in many industry trenches & Burn It Down. Will post the link to the interview when it's up too. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Here's my appearance on ABC News Prime Live last Friday. I so appreciated this conversation about the strikes & why things got to untenable places on a number of industry fronts: abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/…
Been *very* fortunate that Burn It Down has been covered so thoughtfully. One of my absolute favorite pieces is this recent @FortuneMagazine story from @mariaaspan who totally got what I was trying to do (and demystify) with the book. Thank you Maria! 🔥 finance.yahoo.com/news/hollywood…
Absolutely thrilled to go on the Happier in Hollywood podcast with writer/producer/creators Liz Craft and Sarah Fain, it was so super great chatting with them about the strike, the industry and my book. Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hap…
On my site () there is a list of Burn It Down podcasts/articles (& I add to that a lot), but speaking of podcasts, I recently went back on Screaming into the Hollywood Abyss with @nevslin & @DanRutstein & that was super awesome moryan.com
hollywoodabyss.com/burnitdown/
Had a BLAST on @FactuallyPod with @adamconover (followed Adam's work for years, it was def a "longtime listener, first-time caller" situation for me lol). We discuss the truth about Hollywood in the latest episode--on all pod platforms & also Youtube 🔥🔥
I have a free newsletter, Burner Account. Over there (& on my site) I posted a roundup of the media/podcast (& in-person!) appearances that = my "book tour," which you can mostly access from your couch 😉 Watch for the bonus Kerry Washington mention! 🔥🌸burner-account.ghost.io/the-burn-it-do…
Hello! This weekend is the Printer's Row Lit Fest in Chicago, tons of cool stuff is happening I'll be doing a panel 4pm Sunday with @Karnythia -- can't wait. Hope to see you there 🔥 Full schedule on the PRLF site 👇🏻printersrowlitfest.org
Prior to Printer's Row Lit Fest panel this weekend, I talked with Gwen Ihnat of @BlockClubCHI about Burn It Down, Hollywood's ills & how to fix them: "It’s not rocket science. You know how to make Tom Cruise dangle off a mountain, you can figure this out.” blockclubchicago.org/2023/09/08/for…

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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 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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Nov 18, 2022
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...
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