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Obama Backs Writers in Strike Against Studios, Hoping for Fair Deal

Overview

  • Netflix released a new docuseries called "Working: What We Do All Day" produced by Michelle and Barack Obama.
  • Former President Barack Obama expressed stronger support for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) during a Netflix livestream event for his new docuseries "Working: What We Do All Day."
  • Former President Barack Obama expressed support for the ongoing writers strike.
  • Former President Barack Obama expressed solidarity with striking film and TV writers.
  • Obama referred to the “embattled” Hollywood “studios and streamers” on the other side of the bargaining table from the writers, noting that those companies “wouldn’t be around if it weren’t for writers creating the stories that matter.”