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The Takeaway Writers Strike Day 8

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Nov 12 2007 12:00am EDT

The Takeaway: Writers Strike, Day 8

The Tonight Show and Late Night are both planning to lay off non-writing staff at the end of the week if the strike continues. [B&C]

-Denied an outlet for self-expression, some striking writers have been reduced to jotting down their thoughts for (shudder) the Huffington Post and (gasp) Sunday Styles. [NYT]

-Of course, the fancy ones get free run of Maureen Dowd's column space. [NYT]

-News Corp. president Peter Chernin waved a big red flag in front of the WGA by declaring the strike "a positive" for his company. [LAT]

-Nikki Finke spies a "glimmer of hope" in the fact that "a phone call is about to happen, or has already happened," and "there will be a chat" between people she declines to name. This is progress. [DHD] ...

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