WGA Starting To Win The War Of Attrition?

First there was David Letterman's Worldwide Pants making a side agreement with the Writers Guild of America that allowed Dave's production company to work with WGA writers on a couple of late night TV shows. Now Deadline Hollywood is reporting that something similar is about to be announced with United Artists. In both cases, what's happening is that the group in question is essentially giving the WGA exactly what the Guild had asked for in the last bargaining agreement, which the AMPTP rejected out of hand at that time. In other words, splinter cells within the AMPTP are starting to break formation and accept the terms that the WGA's been asking for all along. At some point, you have to ask: "Why did the WGA even need to go out on strike?" It's looking more and more like they were asking for very reasonable concessions all along and this has just been about 'principle' with the harsher representatives of the AMPTP.