They'd better figure this thing out soon. Clyde is hungry, and Daddy's getting in a desperate frame of mind.

Zen

What an absolute shame... just a shame...

Really? I just read this morning in the elevator that the WGA was considering the proposal and was so excited about it. Obviously the news will have to update that. Total bummer! I'll keep my fingers crossed that things will be resolved soon.....

Joe,

The WGA had to "carpetbomb" this thing because the AMPTP was violating the media blackout by spreading rumors that the strike was close to settled -- a PR move so the public would turn on the WGA when they balked at a deal.

The reality is this: the AMPTP's current offer is just as bad the one we went to strike over. The WGA had to make this clear to people so people would stop getting their hopes up.

No one wants this strike. It blows. But until the AMPTP meets the guild, I don't know, a quarter of the way, it will go on and on.

Your anger is understandable. It's just directed at the wrong folks.

I'm with Meghan, although I think I read the story yesterday or the day before. I was actually feeling somewhat hopeful about it. Damn. If this is indeed the case, than yes, disappointment is far too mild of a word.

Best Wishes, Wendy

Joe question:

Your last sentence: "Hopefully... save can still be made." Before what? I mean, say they never reach an agreement, then what? No more movie and t.v writing, ever? Or the WGA folds up for all time? If the writers simply refuse to ever write because they can't get the deal they want, isn't there just countless amatuers and young writers uot there who would kill for a shot in the industry? The studios could simply hire those people on their own terms and screw the WGA. Okay, certainly I have probably no clue what I'm talking about. No offense, Joe if you are affiliated with WGA. Eventually they've gotta work something out, one way or the other right? Someone please explain.

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The amateurs get effed the hardest. Not only are we still nobody with nothing to do and no one who believes in us or will give us a shot, but all of our inspiration is pulled. Everyone above us loses jobs and that doesn't leave openings for us, that leaves a gaping hole in the universe. A hole that cannot be filled by a million young writers. The studios won't hire new talent. They will produce what they already own under rewrites from whatever machines they can get to cross the line.

I hope the strike ends but I hope it ends right and with an eye towards a rich future. This has been the best year of movies in my lifetime and it is classic storytelling 101 that a strike would occur to spoil the beauty of the year, and really last year too since 2006 kicked off a overall quality picture movement. It doesn't make sense to make chinks in your own armor during some of your greatest success. I guess Hollywood doesn't make sense.

Nice explanation Chris.

I'm not a bit surprised by the latest lowball offer. But that it's being spun against the Union is absurd. Hopefully word spreads to the rest of the public that "The Alliance" is the side that's being unreasonable.

I had been hoping for everybody's sake that everything was going to get resolved.

jeff R, I think things are maybe going to change as I read an article about Johnny Carson. He's a non-WGA member and he calls for non-Guild writers to provide him with jokes. I don't know if it's good or bad for the strike cause, but things may change within the next weeks and prolly not in the way writers expected them to change...

What if some non-WGA members get their chance to write? WGA members will become powerless and it will be harder to get what they want. Again, that's what happened in France, union was divided and the strike didn't mean anything anymore.

I hope a solution will come, asap ^^^