Diller dig

By Leslie Simmons

Barry Diller echoed the words of his former protege, Michael Eisner, by calling the writers strike "stupid." "Both sides must have really mishandled this one," Diller told Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto on Monday. "In order to have gotten to 'strike moment,' everyone must have screwed up, which makes it difficult to get them back to some sort of sanity."

The 65-year-old former CEO of Paramount and Fox added there is no revenue from digital content right now. "It's a fixture that no one can figure out," he said. Both sides should have agreed to monitor the next five years to see where all of the revenue is coming from, and freeze that area until they understand the revenue stream, he added.