While, I do agree with Barry on the entitlements issue and find the strike to be fully justifiable, to be honest i doubt it is going to be successful. There are currently many Web writers who do not happen to be memebers of the Writers Guild. Chances are they will be prepared to work for little money just to "put their foot in" and get published. Unfortunately, the perception of the Web writing as non-commercial still appears to be very strong in the writers' community. Hopefully, this will turn around one day (and the strike may make this day come sooner rather than later). On 1/4/08, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
1. It's sad when the person criticizing the Writers Guild has grammatical trouble herself.
2. The logic is even sadder. As I understand it, she is saying the writers
are not morally obligated to a reasonable share because they didn't back a tangentially related law 10 years ago. By the same logic, only workers who voted for Bill Clinton should be entitled to union protection.
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