You may not have noticed/don’t care/have been living in a hole lately, but the TV writers are striking. Personally, I haven’t much paid attention because most everything you find on TV is crap anyway, and here’s evidence as to why that might be the case:

Their picket signs and chants suck. Don’t believe the Modern Gal? Look at the photos here.

Al Tompkins, a former broadcast news producer who now works for journalism think tank Poynter Institute, asked his colleague Roy Peter Clark if he had any better ideas for slogans. His ideas:
– Writers On Strique
– Subjects + Verbs = Our Fair Share
– One Word –- Fairness — Worth a Thousand Pictures
– To strike or not to strike — Shakespeare would carry a sign.
– Pay us our fair share -– and we’ll write like the Dickens.
– What do we do when our nose is on strike? Picket.

Al is inviting everyone to make their own suggestions. To do so go here and leave them in the feedback portion at the bottom of the page. There are already some fantastic ones.
(Cheers to Al’s Morning Meeting)