On Friday night, five weeks into a strike that now promises to drag on well into the new year, seriously complicating plans for this television season and the next, and opening the door to a tube filled with reality shows and other substitutes, it suddenly became clear to all involved that writers' guild leaders were serious about their writers? revolution. After days of haggling over complicated formulas for Internet pay, the latest round of talks blew up over the deeper issues that had been buried inside the writers? contract proposals. Accusing guild leaders of pursuing ?an ideological mission far removed from the interests of their members,? representatives of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expressed outrage over continuing demands of the writers that were not strictly related to pay.
See "Screenwriters Dig In for an Extended Brawl", Michael Cieply, The New York Times, December 9, 2007