Reality's Pen
August 12, 2005
Reality shows offer a glimpse of real life, unmediated by script-writers or story boards. Right? Wrong, says Daniel Petrie, Jr., president of the Writers Guild of America, west. According to Petrie, reality show editors serve the same function as traditional writers, piecing together story arcs out of hundreds of hours of raw tape. And thus, he tells Brooke, they should be recognized under the same union rules that govern traditional TV contracts.
