• The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12 PM

In the writers' strike's second week, some writers may be planning to break ranks. Some of the writers for at least one soap opera, CBS Corp.'s "The Young and the Restless," gave up their status as guild members with plans to return to writing, according to a source. Other soap writers are considering following their lead -- or writing in secret -- to keep their jobs and their shows on the air.

Late last week, the WGA posted on its Web site a phone number to report "strike-breaking activities and scab writing" to the guild's 12-person Strike Rules Compliance Committee. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which negotiates on behalf of studios, responded yesterday with a statement that said, "Asking members to inform on each other and creating a blacklist of those who question the tactics of the WGA leadership is as unacceptable today as it was when the WGA opposed these tactics in the 1950s."

Soap are hardest hit by the strike. Other writers rushed to get film scripts to studios, which paid for them, before the strike began.

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