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Even cheesy sitcoms aren't easy to write.

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this I agree with.
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But there is also a lot more to getting a job as a TV scribe than simply being a good writer.

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This couldn't be more wrong.
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I'll concede that there's a craft to writing for television, and honing that skill is difficult, requires a lot of work, and is something most people, or writers outside the system, don't have or even understand.

But that doesn't mean tv writers are good writers, most aren't. The writing on most tv shows, the vast majority in fact, is unoriginal, cliche, boring, repetitive, stupid, unfunny, superficial and facile; the people who write it are not good writers.

Again, they may have a particular skill for their field and have jobs which are not easy, but that doesn't make them good writers, not even close.