Strike-News Roundup: Can Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminate the Strike?

Arnold Mediates: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger held a meeting with Writers Guild officials yesterday. Today, he’ll meet with studio heads to see if he can broker a compromise. If it doesn’t work, he plans to just kill everyone. [LAT]

Soap-Opera Writers Cross Lines: Last week we asked which writers would be the first scabs, and it turns out it’s the soap-opera writers. We’re shocked — we had no idea soap operas had writers. [Variety]

Bloggers Strike: A number of entertainment bloggers, including ones from Televisionary, Give Me My Remote, and Glowybox, will go on “strike� today in solidarity with the writers. Hmm. We’ll have to see what our bosses think about this. [TVWeek]

Late Show Writers Blog: Picketing writers for the Late Show With David Letterman have started a blog. Sadly, their Web designer is apparently on strike too. [LateShowWritersOnStrike]

CBS News Department to Strike? Later this week, writers for the CBS news department will vote on whether to authorize a strike. If they do, rather than let 60 Minutes go dark, Andy Rooney has volunteered to dance like Ellen every Sunday night on live TV for an hour. [HR]