WGA Strike: Truth and Fiction in the NYT
Brooks Barnes, the NYT’s guy in LA, is once again ever so wrong. Dancing With The Stars is a union show.
And his quoted source, Deborah Blum, hasn’t had a writing credit since 1999, and that one just might not be a union gig.
Jennifer Pozer tries to explain the differences in the Huffington Post, but gets a little tangled. Yes, reality shows have “writers” who are usually credited as story producers. The WGA does not represent them, and doesn’t have any contracts with the production companies that employ them.
Many reality writers are rather bitter at the WGA’s mismanagement of the short lived strike of the writers of America’s Next Top Model.
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