Good News: 3 Years After Rathergate, CBS To Quit Authoring News

This Thursday, CBS News scribes may join their more avowedly creative colleagues on the picket line, leaving current events the world over to unfold with hundreds fewer duly anointed decipherers.

TechCrunch foresees ironic salad days for online content providers.

The CBS writers strike alone will not push many to online alternatives who aren’t already getting their news fix from the internet; there is always Fox, NBC, ABC or Cable as an alternative. However with strike action in the air there is always the chance that more writers from other networks may join the picket lines, and that would reduce television choice. The irony of course is that the original writers strike is all about sharing revenue from online content, where as the net result of their actions may actually see more people turning online for content and less people watching television. After the 1988 writers strike, network television lost 10% of its audience once the strike ended, at a time where there were far fewer alternatives to what viewers have today.