Writers Guild of America Strike

If you don't watch the video above, the gist is that the producers aren't giving the writers of TV shows and films their fair share of DVD sales and Internet Downloads. The DVD percentage that the writers currently receive has not changed in about twenty years.

Enter the New York Times, whose liberal facade is a joke to anybody who still reads it. NYT just ran a piece today that offers readers alternatives to their favorite cable shows while the Writers' Strike continues. Are your favorite shows going into reruns because of that pesky strike? Then here are some other shows you should check out (these may also be on reruns, but you may have never watched them before). If you like 24, they suggest you try LA Ink.

Okay, NY Times--or more specifically NEIL GENZLINGER, the "article"'s writer--keep digging your own grave. Rather than tell readers--"hey, this writers' strike is going on, here are the issues at play, here's how you can take a stand," you're giving them more TV options? And you even joke about it in the title of the article: "Go On, Bold Couch Potatoes, Click Into the Unknown." Not only do you recognize the inaction of the couch potato, but you're encouraging it when you should offer the couch potato some options--sure, there are other channels to watch, but some of the couch potatoes out there may want to get involved in the writers' strike. The NY Times and Mr. Genzlinger, however, don't want to go down that road, they only want their readers to indulge mindless apathy. At this point, watching reruns or other shows is tantamount to crossing the picket line.

Day by day the New York Times--which incidentally is composed of WRITING, of WORDS, of the same matter as the scripts and screenplays of the members of the WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA--day by day that publication becomes less relevant and begins to sound more and more like Entertainment Weekly hosted by Bobby Bush. Fine. Let the Style Section become the standard for all other sections. When the old guard who continues to read the NY Times dies, you can be sure the members of my generation will not pick up the slack in readership. We get our news and entertainment from better outlets.

Here's the stupid NY Times Article. But before you click consider whether you actually want to increase their page hits.