Deadlines reporters and contributors have done anadmirable jobon that score.
All issues were local.
Even in 2007, a three-month strike didnt really change the national equation.
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Contemporary Hollywood is a powerful, vocal, left-leaning cultural and political force.
The Oscars and Emmys annually underscore its core beliefs.
Jane Fonda, with herrecently expressed notionsabout climate, patriarchy and racism, is more rule than exception.
But most of it requires writers, who, for the moment, arent writing.
In the near term, this may not make much difference.
