N.Y. writers pick up pickets for 2008

From Hollywood Reporter, 1.10.08
by Gail Schiller

NEW YORK -- Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers and Richard Belzer joined about 300 protesters outside Viacom's Times Square offices for the first major New York City WGA picket line of 2008.

Writers walking the picket line on an unusually warm winter day reiterated that they were committed to the strike for the long haul despite mounting financial pressures.

"The reality is setting in that we must be right about the Internet because these people are absolutely refusing to negotiate so either they're just stubborn out of hubris or they're intelligent businessmen who know the Internet is the motherlode and they don't want to give us a piece of it," said Warren Leight, co-executive producer and showrunner for "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." "There's not a person in New York who's willing to go back to work for the offer they left on the table of $240 for a year's unlimited Internet use of an hourlong drama." More