What do very funny professional out-of-work writers do while on strike? They go online and devastate their adversaries through wicked humor. That's according to Los Angeles Times writer Matea Gold. As her report notes, the striking writers are winning the PR battle over the traditional old-style approach of the bosses on the other side of this issue. Withering wit apparently has had something to do with the talks getting re-started. The producers are afraid.
A snippet from the story that summarizes the situation:
When the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced plans to resume talks, one factor that apparently contributed to the detente was the fear among some studios that the blogs and videos effectively were casting them as villains.
"They're our version of electronic samizdat," said Michael Winship , president of WGA East , alluding to underground publications distributed in the former Soviet Union. "The humor is devastating."
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