Or… that lots of people disagreeing with the reasons behind the WGA strike is somehow AN EXCUSE for the Times to give sub-par coverage to a 4-thousand strong WGA rally in an entertainment company town?! Say what? Disagreement makes for good stories. Even a high school journalism student knows that.

The Times may’ve long been a lousy excuse for a major metropolitan newspaper, but if people don’t stop buying it, it will never change.

This is a ½ strike. I say that because while it is causing significant disruptions in TV it has had zero effect on films. Now you’re attacking Ellen when every major movie actor has been rushing to lockdown a film gig and your own membership was rushing to get scripts in to keep their careers and financing going while you are out of work.

The producers are clearly in no hurry to get back to the table and seem to be looking forward to dealing with the adults in the room, the DGA. Had the WGA waited until June they would have been part of a global movement of all the unions and would have truly shut down the entire industry. A more likely scenario is that as that deadline approached it would have been settled without a strike.

Has anybody read Disney’s most recent financials? The strike was a mere footnote and clearly has not caused even a ripple on Wall Street. Unfortunately, Wall Street is where you need to make waves.

I am not a writer but do support your cause. Everything I’ve learned in the past few weeks leads me to believe that you are absolutely right and deserve everything you’re asking for. Especially an increase in DVD residuals that your negotiators took off the table before the strike. To make a move like that and not stay at the table just doesn’t make sense.

I stopped the LATimes years ago since they only seem to write to impress each other rather than writing the facts.

Newspapers don’t want to cover labor issues. The hypocrites have their own issues with the Newspaper Guild.

Newspaper writers face the same issues of payment and use of their “content” in “multiple platforms.”

Is anyone at The Times, for example, being paid to blog?

The writer of a major film studio release can expect a paycheck of at least $1 million, according to union members[].

And for all the people saying that we’re striking for raises: the AMPTP actually offered us page after page after page of rollbacks. Their terms would have forced the guild to raise the minimum for health insurance, for instance, which means that many writers would have lost their coverage completely. They wanted to roll back residuals as well. The contract offer was so ludicrous that it even demanded that the AMPTP be able to keep writers’ names off any publicity materials. What is the point of that, other than minimizing the role and importance of writers even further than they already have? There was nothing in their offer to say yes to.

The LA Times is a pretty terrible newspaper and its taken a well-deserved circulation hit in recent years, apparently greater than the average circulation drop newspapers have been seeing in general.

It’s biases are well-known and very well-covered in the blogosphere. Check out patterico.com for a near daily dose of catching the LA Times red-handed in one falsehood or another - falsehoods they often acknowledge and then refuse to correct.