[W]ould you say there is a correlation between—I don't want to be melodramatic and say “decline,” but the precarity that both media and Hollywood face these days?
Absolutely. It's like, VC people came in from Silicon Valley and started saying, "Okay, we need to get into news, and we need to get into media, and online content." So they started pumping money into BuzzFeed and all these other websites, and it's this perpetual growth mindset. They expect to make more money every single quarter for the rest of history, or for as long as this entity exists. And they weren't concerned about quality, they weren't concerned about their employees, they weren't concerned about the people who were doing the work for them, it was just purely about growth at all costs.
It’s this idea that we need to be everywhere. And that's not how you make news. That's not how you make art. That's not how you invest in actual creativity.
Frazier Tharpe's question, Cord Jefferson's answer. Explaining the writer's strike in GQ.
