Reply #17: No, that is not necessarily true

[Atman]

There are reporters, stringers, writers, etc. Reporters are often the people in the field who get the news, see it happening, take the notes and qet the quotes, then their "facts" are sent in to be turned into the story which is read on air. Sometimes reporters actually write their stories, sometimes they don't. You find the post "silly" because you don't understand the difference.

What I find really galling is that, according to another poster, this 500-count of "writers" at CBS includes production staff and even graphic designers. As a graphic designer (and a writer, too, actually, but most of my income is from design), I'd be seriously bummed to find out I was being told I had to go out on strike, lose my income just before the holiday season, because writers are striking.

Don't anyone get me wrong, I'm not anti-union at all, and I fully understand what the Screen Writers Guild is doing and why. But I'm not so sure about the news writers. Putting a lot of unrelated people out of work to show solidarity when the economy and the markets are already so bad -- I dunno. I feel badly for all these people. They don't make a lot of money in the first place, and it's not like the news writers are actually striking for residuals and what is their "fair share" of the pie, as the SWG writers are doing. A lot of people will be hurt by this action, and they won't even have a voice in the whole mess.

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