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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 4051551" data-attributes="member: 4090">Obviously anyone can join the WGA, provided they meet the proper criteria. The issue is that reality show writers and animation writers are not covered for those particular jobs by the guild. So, sure, if they have a job writing for scripted television, they'd benefit from anything that any other WGA member did. If they continue to work on "The Moment of Truth", though, the WGA wouldn't be able to provide them with any kind of protection. Basically, the only people working in reality shows and animation that can get any kind of WGA coverage are those who are also working in other WGA covered fields- scripted television, movies. But let's be clear- it's not like those jobs are a dime a dozen.As for not wanting to be covered- we can go back and forth with "he said, she said" here, but from the (admittedly small) number of people I know involved in that particular facet of the industry, as well as from things I've read and heard, there are plenty of writers on "reality shows" who would love nothing more than to be considered eligible to join the WGA on the basis of their work on reality shows, which is all that many of them do.I stand informed. As I noted, though, I really am not all that familiar with animation writers or their situation. It's really only the reality show writers and the WGA that I have any familiarity with.I'll take a look at that link. I remember reading that one of the WGA frontmen was also an animation writer and wanted to join the WGA- maybe that's the guy you're talking about.Wow- overstate much? The writers on these shows are not, by and large, the producers, editors, and/or directors and actors.The hyphenates you are talking about are, as you say, generally members already of one or more guilds and thus aren't a point of concern here. It's the uncovered writers that are- and those are the majority.</blockquote>

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