From nytimes.com:
Screenwriters moved to the picket lines this morning, as last-minute negotiations between the writers’ unions and producers failed to avert a strike over payments from producers for so-called new media, among other issues.
A sharply different scene was unfolding down the street at Walt Disney Studios. Led by a strike captain armed with a bullhorn, about 60 pickets greeted executives arriving at the studio’s primary gate with a boisterous display of solidarity. “Union!” the strike captain shouted. “Power!” the writers responded.
Walking the line were writer-producers from some of the biggest hits on television. The lead writers and show runners on “Lost” on ABC, marched in front of Greg Berlanti, the writer and producer of “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Brothers and Sisters” and the upcoming “Eli Stone,” all on ABC. Nearby were writers from “Reaper,” a new comedy on the CW network, and “Kyle XY,” a drama on ABC Family.
Despite the gung-ho attitude, it was immediately clear that Burbank is not Detroit. When the strike captain took a break from his bullhorn, half of the picketing writers at Disney started pecking at their BlackBerries.
