Courtesy of cyranocyrano:

[missroserose]

Possibly one of the most eye-opening essays I've ever read. If you are at all fuzzy on why the writers' strike is going on right now, give it a read. And then think, very hard, about where we as a culture would be without someone to write stories for us.

http://tightropegirl.livejournal.com/16033.html