In an open letter to America, Hollywood tries to explain why all those people in red shirts keep turning up on the evening news: "2. Writers are greedy jerks who hate you. This is a little known fact, but all writers are paid in gold and candy. Now they want to be paid in platinum and caviar. I'm not making this up. I tried to tell them that, frankly, gold and candy is the better deal. But you know what they did? They spit on me, and they kicked me in my male bathing-suit area. Is that the act of reasonable people? No. It's the act of greedy jerks who hate you. Boo." [The Morning News]