Writers' Strike, 12/5.

"Hollywood's striking movie and television writers received the most votes by far in an online poll by I Want Media to name the 2007 Media Person of the Year."

Judd Apatow tells the Toronto Star's Peter Howell that the studios are acting like they want this strike to carry on. Via Jeffrey Wells.

"The strike should end now," argues Alec Baldwin in the Huffington Post. "The writers should go back to work. Continue negotiating, but go back to work."

"On the surface, the impasse revolves around how to divvy up future Internet media revenues," writes Patrick Goldstein in the LAT. "But the real problem is that nobody knows the value of anything anymore. Whether we're reading horror stories about the mortgage meltdown, watching the dollar plummet or gagging on the prices at our neighborhood gas station, we're all stumbling around with a nagging feeling that the value of things has become unmoored." Happy holidays.

"[W]e're not trying to make a new deal, with a fresh approach to a rapidly changing business," blogs Guild member Rob Long for the Guardian. "We're trying to fix the old deal. We're trying to unscrew ourselves. Which is the very best way to screw yourself. Again."

Posted by dwhudson at December 5, 2007 1:48 PM