Opinion: In today’s pages: Kenya isn’t Rwanda
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The editorial board has a New Year’s resolution for Hollywood -- get a new revenue model:
So as a new year begins, the studios seem to be approaching that same fateful point that the music industry did in the late 1990s: People love the product, but there are signs that they’re not willing to spend as much on it as they used to. That’s all the more reason for studios and their guilds -- writers, directors and actors -- to collaborate on new ways to make money and attract viewers. Collective bargaining has often yielded just that sort of partnership in other industries.
The board advocates quick action on Kenya to prevent ethnic warfare, and urges Congress to proceed with caution in the CIA tapes case instead of forcing testimony.
Columnist Joel Stein takes his act to the City Council. California Assemblyman Ted W. Lieu (D-Torrance) says the answer to LAX’s runway woes are fewer flights. And University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill law professor Scott Baker thinks federal judges shouldn’t get a raise (the editorial board thinks otherwise).