Mary McNamara: Streamers profited when 'the idiot box' became art. They forgot writers made it that way
LOS ANGELES — There is nothing pretty about a boom town gone bust, nothing fun about finding out that, once again, the people who profited most from a golden age are not the visionaries, the explorers or the workers, but the merchants.
On Tuesday, members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike.
Largely because television no longer provides a living for many of the people who write it.
For those of us who've watched TV grow from the unfairly derided "idiot box" to become the of the 21st century, such a development seems at once completely absurd and tragically
