These days a strike isn't a proper strike without a blog. When those on strike include the creative writng talents behind some great TV and film drama and comedy, you know the blog is going to be a good one.

The Writers' Guild of America began a strike today in support of its members' right to be paid for their work when it appears on the internet.

Philosophically, I want information (and that includes drama and comedy shows) to be free. But given that we don't yet live in the kind of perfect world where information, food or anything else, can necessarily be produced for free, and given that the media corporations are certainly not giving away the fruits of the writers' efforts, then I think the WGA deserve support of all workers and trade unionists. For as long as Disney and Fox are making profits from the work, then those who've produced the work should get paid for it.