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According to Glen Close, the strike by the Writers Guild of America is starting to turn the public against them.

Talking to the New York Post, Close said, "I'll never cross a picket line, but this writers' strike may now be at a point where it's counterproductive."

Close has been calling for the Guild to call off its strike for some time, and she adds that she's getting tired of doing it.

In my estimation the studios are in a much stronger position than the strikers, and can afford to wait and see how things work out over the next couple months.

While some say the upfront in February may force the hand of the producers, I'm not so sure that's true. Some are already thinking of dealing one-on-one with advertising agencies, and dropping the party atmosphere.

What the strike has also done is pushed the networks to try a lot of other content they wouldn't have before, and the results have been coming in pretty positive so far. If that continues to happen, we'll start to see a lot smaller Writers Guild emerge after the strike, as studios migrate to more live and reality TV shows. They don't need writers for them.

One major reason the tide is changing is the word is getting out on how much the writers really make, and the public isn't too simpathetic with people who make far more than the average person. The longer the strike has went on, the more it's being discovered.

The Writers Guild picking and choosing who they're going to give or not give waivers to is also starting to cause bitterness in other industries, as their concern with only themselves is hitting a bad nerve with the music industry as well, in response to them not granting waivers for the 50th anniversary of the Grammy's.

The longer the strike goes on, as Glenn Close says, the more the public is turning against them. The reasons for that happening are legitimate and real.