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The Writers' Guild of America has come out on strike against the major movie studios and TV networks.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

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The Writers' Guild of America has come out on strike against the major movie studios and TV networks. In the long view, this is one more tremor from the tectonic shifts occurring in the world of media, as both audio and video migrate to digital platforms like TiVo and the Internet, raising new issues about compensation for "content providers" and the harvesting of ad revenues. As watchers of politics, we suspect that a writers' strike in this sphere must have been going on unheralded at least since the beginning of the 2008 presidential campaign. The quality of humor, at any ...

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