Late last week, the WGA posted on its Web site a phone number to report "strike-breaking activities and scab writing" to the guild's 12-person Strike Rules Compliance Committee. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which negotiates on behalf of studios, responded yesterday with a statement that said, "Asking members to inform on each other and creating a blacklist of those who question the tactics of the WGA leadership is as unacceptable today as it was when the WGA opposed these tactics in the 1950s."
Soap operas face perhaps the most imminent peril during the strike. Their audiences have been shrinking for years, repeats draw low viewership, they rarely sell on DVDs and there are few channels for Internet distribution. Writers and producers in the genre fear that by the time the strike finishes, their audiences won't return.
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