TV Signs its Own Death Certificate
My friend
Barry is more optimistic than I am about the business acumen of television writers, not to mention the entertainment industry smarts of venture capitalists, but I applaud his applause anyway. Television execs are doing themselves no favors by having consumers ween themselves away from television, and by having writers expend more energy on the web and elsewhere:
Regardless of whether the strike gets settled, and what cut the writers get, the situation has just unleashed a long tail of entrepreneurial energies of some of the most creative minds in the country. Just what television needed as their ratings have been sliding: competition from both within and without.
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