While it’s hard to look at successful people in New York and Los Angeles refusing to do their jobs while I write online for free in the time I’m not working at a non-profit, there is a legitimate backbone to the ongoing Hollywood writer’s strike. Isn’t it the rich getting richer, you ask? In some cases, yes. Some members of the WGA are well off, but that doesn’t mean that some of the brightest minds in Hollywood shouldn’t be compensated for their work appearing in new media. It’s the perfect time for a strike, too, because TV is only just beginning to make its strongest legal steps into the Internet. And though we won’t feel the full force of the strike until January if it continues, action needs to be taken now, so history (the 1988 strike that cost the entertainment industry $500 million) won’t repeat itself, and so that an actor’s strike next year can be avoided.

[United Hollywood]

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