Film and television writers plan "Strike TV" Internet programming

According to the Strike TV “MySpace” page, funds raised by ad revenue will go toward the Writers Guild Foundation Industry Support Fund, assisting non-WGA members, including IATSE and Teamsters affected by the strike.”

The gathering had a highly contradictory character. On the one hand, it no doubt reflected the growing disgust of writers, and not only writers, with the absolute domination of the media and entertainment industry by massive corporations, as well as the desire for a genuine alternative. On the other hand, the meeting made clear that there are elements seeking to divert those sentiments into politically and socially harmless channels or even to profit handsomely from them.

Writer Ian Deitchman (“Life As We Know It”) explained that Strike TV would provide the opportunity for “WGA members to work for themselves, to generate revenue through advertising, to own their own material, and to be compensated through profit participation.” Stressing the importance that WGA members place on their creative works, Deitchman declared that on Strike TV, “Content will be king.”