Story Telling

The Writer’s Strike has been going on for a couple months now without major national coverage, but I’m betting that’s about to change. The Writer’s Guild has filed Unfair Labor Practices charges against the AMPTP with the National Labor Relations Board for walking out of negotiations 7 days ago. There have also been people asking questions why Hollywood is the only place in the free world where 6 corporations that would normally be cut-throat competitors are allowed to negotiate labor deals as one unit in the first place.
The Mitchell Report came out yesterday, naming about 80 Major League Baseball players who they’ve determined to have used “steroids, human growth hormones, or other performance enhancing drugs.” The fallout is far from over, but it seems to me that there’s no point in crying about the past if everyone can get behind eliminating this problem in the future. Many athletes will lose lucrative sponsership deals, but it seems that advertisers are quite happy to continue to support the sport…. and that means the show will go on.