1) Bunch of spoiled rich kids who trot around in red T-shirts holding red flags as if they were downtrodden mining workers or something. They need to get a life - what they do is not labor, and they are not a labor union; they are a trade organization at best.

2) It seems hypocritical to demand revs from reality TV. Isn’t reality TV supposed to be spontaneous and by definition does not use any writers? What am I missing here?

3) Hard to feel sympathetic for a bunch of people who sit around bouncing superballs in writers’ labs all day, or irritating us in Starbucks with their clickity-clack laptops. Of course, producers are even worse, being among the lowest forms of life on the planet in terms of how the treat other people. Indeed, neither group attracts much sympathy from the general public.

4) It is about time the Ivy League and Seven Sisters English majors found another way to supplement their trust fund incomes.

Info found at the post about this ad on Adland, which is a working link unlike the one you have above.
http://commercial-archive.com/node/142586

And: Who’s this ad aimed at, actually? Current and potential TCM viewers, presumably. But is that really a “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” sort of crowd? What does TCM know about its viewers that I might not guess - that they watch the channel as a preferable alternative to new movies rather than as a supplement to them?

And this after a year widely regarded as one of the best for movies in a long while, particularly American movies.

Just baffling.