Independent producers are under pressure to let TV networks own more of their productions. But what will that mean for what is produced? “It’s not about the money. We all get paid well. It’s about the fact that a show you own is your viewpoint, your vision. All that is dissipated when you’re a hired hand. You can have the most brilliant people in the world running networks, but it’s almost a scientific impossibility for bureaucracies to be inventive and edgy. They cannot. It’s their nature.” – New York Times 05/07/00