David Simon, creator of The Wire and The Plot Against America, has weighed in on an issue that threatens to tear the WGA East apart: what to do about the guild’s rapidly growing contingent of digital news writers?Over the past five years, the 6,400-member guild has conducted organizing drives at dozens of digital news rooms – including Salon, Slate and HuffPost and Vice – and taking in some 1,700 digital media members, with another 1,000 more in the pipeline.
Guild leaders say that at the current pace, film and scripted television writers will be in the minority in a year or two.Simon, who’s running for re-election to the guild’s Council, is part of the soon-to-be ruling party’s Inclusion & Experience slate that sees the digital media
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