The Broken Record Of AMPTP Propaganda
I’ve mentioned it before. How the AMPTP campaign against the WGA is one of dissembling and disinformation. “Despite what the AMPTP and its anonymous flunkies would have people focus on,” I wrote, “the ‘average’ writer salary isn’t useful information of any sort.” Well, they’re at it again, unable to let go of tactics which depend entirely upon people being too stupid to know they’re being played.
So, now what are they doing?
They’re posting graphics explaining that the “average working WGA writer makes more than a Surgeon”.
As repeatedly shown since the strike began, the “average” writer salary is almost entirely irrelevant. The only reason to mention it, in the end, is if you’re lying to people about the issues.
If you need a monetary figure, as I and others have demonstrated, what you need is the median.
If you need a story, what you need is to tell the story of the typical writer, not an average one. For example, Nina Bargiel, who has a part-time job to help make ends meet.
What counts here is the typical, not the average.
The only part the average has to play in all of this is the mounting evidence that the studios, in their dependency upon people being too stupid to notice what the AMPTP is doing, might just have a collective intelligence far below the average themselves.