I am 100 percent behind the Writers Guild members and their strike. I come from a union family, but I am conflicted. Supporting the same soap writers I've bashed for years? Well, supporting their right and need to strike doesn’t mean I endorse what they write. Most of their work in recent years has been really bad! But I believe all writers have the right to be paid for their work, and paid additionally if it appears somewhere other than the television screen–namely in the new media. Why should the networks get all that money?
Elaine Liner
Elaine Liner currently writes arts and media criticism for the Dallas Observer and other publications. A graduate of Trinity University, with a master's from SMU, Liner teaches writing and criticism on the college level. For a decade she wrote for daily news… read more