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  • AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I can’t comment on the quality of his show but once upon a time Jon Stewart did this on The Daily Show and people applauded him for it. Why is it different when Maher does it? Stewart still supported the writers but wanted to keep the rest of the people who worked on his show working, isn’t that the same thing Maher is doing?

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      1 year ago

      I might be wrong about this, but I believe in the John Stewart situation (or whatever show this happened with), restarting the show was a collaborative effort between the show and the union. In this case, the union has stated that they would consider restarting a show without writers as crossing the picket lines.