Writers’ might

TWO polls give a 63% or higher approval rating to the writers in the current strike, yet Lynn Smith’s article [“Pitched Battle,” Nov. 18] quotes publicist after pundit expressing skepticism about how the writers are doing. If George Bush had a 63% approval rating, the papers would be filled with adulatory paeans to his success and examinations of how he pulled it off. And yet when writers, who have nearly no benefit from previous name recognition, achieve this degree of support, all we hear is paragraph after paragraph of “Yeah, but wait till January.”

Brian Nelson

Woodland Hills