Writers' Strike Ends

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/business/media/13vote.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin

I think it is very good that the writers’ strike is finally over. At the end of 100 days of being on strike, I thought that it was a very good decision on the writers’ parts to vote to end the strike. I am very curious to see what the concessions were that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers made to the writers. All that it stated in the article was that they had proposed a three-year contract and the writers’ guilds had approved it. The author of the article could have made it much more effective by actually informing the reader of whether the writers’ original terms had been met. I was surprised to read that the walkout of only 100 days had cost the writers a collective $285 million in lost wages. It is because of this and the halt on production of television shows that I am so happy to see that the two sides have finally come to an agreement. The writing in this article was decent overall, but the end quote could have been much more interesting and effective.