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...footage. America's Next Top Model is the highest-rated reality show and the flagship program for a new network. And here the writers don' t get the benefits that the editors and Tyra Banks get." Guild officials point out that reality writers don't accrue the portable pension and other benefits that a writer of West Wing or any other network series gets. They must wander from series to series with very little to show for it. In that respect, they are not so different from most of the contestants whose reality they craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strikers on the Catwalk | 7/27/2006 | See Source »

...catwalk - a picket line outside the series' production studios in West Los Angeles. Early this week the entire writer-producer staff of Top Model walked off the job, alleging that the show's executive producers are hindering their efforts to join the Writers Guild of America and collect the pension and pay benefits that all television writers receive as union members. The signs they carry brandish their sentiments: "Top Model means Top $," "Reality Needs a Re-write" and "Tyra is Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strikers on the Catwalk | 7/27/2006 | See Source »

...titles like "show producer" - functioning in much the same capacity as writers on TV's more traditional scripted sitcoms and dramas. They contend they should therefore be eligible to join the Writers Guild, which represents the majority of the industry's scribes and receive the health, pay and pension benefits that they deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strikers on the Catwalk | 7/27/2006 | See Source »

...return for Keyser's cooperation, prosecutors had accepted his denial of spying for Taiwan and let him plead guilty to three lesser felonies, preserving his pension. But in their filing earlier this month to throw out his plea, they allege Keyser repeatedly lied about his contacts with Taiwanese intelligence. Prosecutors want to enter new evidence to support "espionage-related" charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stay Away From Spook-y Women | 7/18/2006 | See Source »

...return for Keyser?s cooperation, prosecutors had accepted his denial of spying for Taiwan and let him plead guilty to three lesser felonies, preserving his pension. But in their filing earlier this month to throw out his plea, they allege Keyser repeatedly lied about his contacts with Taiwanese intelligence. Prosecutors want to enter new evidence to support ?espionage-related? charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Steamy Spy Scandal at the State Department | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

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