Our ongoing coverage of the ongoing coverage of the Writer's Guild of America strike continues as we look at reports from three different Times: in New York, management is shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that the writers have rejected their most recent proposal, even after the executives went to all the trouble of putting "Partnership" in the title. In Chicago, the Sun-Times' Lynn Elber paints us a nightmare vision of the future in which we are forced to watch shows like "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann", "Here Come the Newlyweds", and "Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants". And in Los Angeles, Scott Collins reminds us who the real victims in all this are: critics, who are missing out on high-dollar junkets to tony Hollywood hotels because of the delay in new movies and TV shows. Tragic. — Leonard Pierce