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1. Just saw this in the NYT. Some editor should walk across the newsroom and drop a rock on this mook's keyboard. In 20 years, I've not had a single agent land a client the gig; writers get them by the work, the rep & their own networking and word-of-mouth. "Strong hand" my ass. 
2. Nor has my agent ever gotten me such a gig; I worked phones and rooms and made connections myself. And I say this with all due respect to my agent on whom I rely for his negotiating acumen and his understanding of the industry. But of course, I pay my guy 10 percent and...
3. ...refuse to be packaged, so I'm getting what I pay for unlike every packaged writer who his disincentivized his or her agent to chase the last dollar. In the end, the point is almost the exact opposite of what this idiot in the NYT is claiming: That this collective...
4...action by writers is going to reveal something that showrunners know but that many younger writers, perhaps, do not: The writers themselves do most of the work of selling themselves and their talent and we are more equipped to find each other and collaborate than we knew...
5. The agencies should fear one unintended outcome of their grasping attempt to maintain a system of bid-rigging and racketeering: The inevitable reveal of just how fucking little agents have to do with how writers find each other on projects. That's about to collapse as well.
