While researching photographies about the 1934 longshoremen strike, I came across these two pictures showing how press photographers looked like back then.

We can see both the gravity of the occasion – Police is about to attack the strikers, and the photographers prepared themselves with gas masks, goggles and rain hats – and a typical way of handling it – joking about.

Source: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.

In case you didn’t know, the Hollywood writers are on strike. For those of you who are unclear exactly why (like me) This 5-minute video lays out very clearly why.

So, there is not really a reason to get angry. They are simply trying to protect their future.
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