Newspapers and the movies
Maybe the striking writers can work on some new cliches while on break from the picket lines. What will they use to reflect:
* a bored, disengaged husband ignoring his wife at the breakfast table, if he can't have his head buried in the paper?
* a plot twist or character revelation, if they can't use the device of a spinning front page with the headline in WWIII-size type saying something like this?
* a kidnapping victim who is still alive, if he can't hold the day's edition?
* a damsel caught in a rain shower but really in need of a man with an umbrella, if she can't use her paper to cover her head?
* a quiet, all-American suburban neighborhood, if they can't show a paperboy on his bike delivering papers?
* an undercover cop leaning against a building, looking non-chalant, conducting surveillance if he can't be pretending to read the paper?
* the dark underbelly of a town if they can't show newspaper pages blowing across the road?