Abstract
In recent Federal Communications Commission reviews of media ownership rules, television writers unsuccessfully campaigned for a prime-time set-aside for “independent” programs. This article approaches the campaign as a structured negotiation of writers’ industrial authorship, which exploited institutional contradictions across the field while also betraying instabilities in the concept of independence itself.
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