Peter Bart: As Film & TV Writers Hit Picket Lines, Some Digital Media Counterparts Are Stuck In ‘Traffic’ Jam
deadline.comThis is a dark moment for frazzled members of the writing fraternity. Picketers in Hollywood and New York fear a prolonged standoff gripping film and TV.
Also troubling, their colleagues in digital media are patching together their résumés as Vice Media and BuzzFeed prepare for crash landings.
Will others follow? Even a digital zealot like Ben Smith sees the moment as “a humbling experience.” His new book, titled Traffic, vividly revisits the picaresque adventures of the “muckrakers, dweebs and wing nuts” who set out to revolutionize legacy journalism.
Some became at once rich and unemployed. The New York Times liked Smith’s book, even though he quit that paper to start yet another digital adventure called Semafor — its fate still to be determined.
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