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“We have nothing to do,” the talk-show host said. “The writers aren’t here.” To fill the time, he got a shave on the air. Johnny Carson, then host of “The Tonight Show,” was also at a loss. ”It is not fun to come to work when you see your friends who you’ve known for many years standing out on a picket line,” he said on air. “And it’s a weird picket line: The writers are out there holding up these signs and there’s nothing on them.” But the 1988 strike by the Writers Guild of America did not produce so many fresh jokes. For one thing, the airwaves were filled with reruns. And not too much was funny. The strike lasted 22 weeks, reportedly cost the industry $500 million, and caused hardship for individual strikers. “People lost their houses, they weren’t able to send their kids to college,” Dick Wolf, executive producer of Law and Order, told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001, when a similar strike threatened (but didn’t materialize.) Some were forced to adjust in creative ways. Fran Drescher and her husband Peter Marc Jacobson (later co-creators of “The Nanny”) launched a good business, Loaf & Kisses Gourmet Croutons, which kept going. The strike also resulted in a changed cultural landscape. The fall television season was delayed, and several shows were permanently canceled. Much of the public...

(CBS News) Parts of China have suffered unusually heavy rains. Beijing got the equivalent of six months’ rain in one day. Then came deadly flooding, and now, say critics, comes a torrent of propaganda. It was the worst flooding in 60 years, but a lot of Chinese think officials at first downplayed the death toll to minimize the bad news. Originally reported at 37, it suddenly changed after questions on the internet and was raised to 77, 해남출장마사지 and some don’t believe that number either. There were other questions too: Did city officials do a bad job planning the drainage system in a high-end part of town with a lot of new skyscrapers? Instead of an answer, officials quashed the criticism. When one blogger said: “they only know how to turn on the tap of positive propaganda,” the post was quickly deleted by authorities. There are other questions about Beijing’s building boom beyond faults in the drainage system, mostly focused on the quality of so much going up so fast. “Even when people buy luxury condos in China, they joke that it’s not going to last very long because they haven’t been built to last,” said Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing. The one area that had no flooding was ancient Beijing, around the Forbidden City, once home to emperors. Its...