Who Joined the Writers Guild Strike?
As the Hollywood writers’ strike turns three weeks old, CBS News writers are joining the fight. In a vote last week, the union said 81 percent of the 300 writers who participated gave WGA negotiators the power to call a work stoppage, reports The Associated Press. According to industry analysts, the 500 CBS News television and radio writers based in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago have been working under an expired contract since April 2005. (See also: No More ‘Housewives’ or ‘Grey’s Anatomy’? Striking Writers Almost All White) Subprime Market Bottoms Out–AGAIN! Despite subprime-market improvements in September and early October, investors fear the latest market crash will be more costly than the drop in August. Economists increasingly worry that banks are suffering such massive losses that they will be forced to cut back their lending to consumers and businesses. That would slow the economy, much as the savings-and-loan crisis did in the early 1990s, reports The Washing
