Once More With Feeling: Rumor that DGA Has Reached A Deal

Ok, here we go again -- this is just a rumor, folks, but this time we do have confirmation from a couple of sources that seem reliable.

People close to the DGA negotiations are telling us and others that the deal is done, and will be announced in the very near future.

Once again, I want to stress this is a rumor. If it's true, the most important thing we can all do is stay calm and evaluate the terms of this deal. The worst thing any of us can do is react reflexively on either side of the spectrum -- either by saying "no matter what the deal is, we have to take it to end the strike" or by saying "if it's not exactly what we asked for, it's not enough and we have to reject it."

The real solution is, will have to be, a middle ground between those two positions.

None of our sources have any idea what the terms of the deal will be -- the DGA has been scrupulous about their media blackout. But odds are very good that it will be less than we wanted, but more than we could have gotten any other way.

We gave the DGA leverage that they would never otherwise have had. Let's hope it paid off. But we won't know until we see the deal -- if indeed it turns out to exist.