Of course the studios want to drag the writer's strike on for as long as they can afford to. It is the only way they can make writer's suffer.
But, more importantly, they want to project the idea that the writers need a paycheck more than the studios need writers. It's classic fearmongering.
"We'll ruin you. Our pockets are deeper. You'll run out first."
It's disgusting, and it's frustrating that so many otherwise progressive news organizations and publications parroted it without any deeper examination.
These organizations, in attempting to scoop a story about how evil these studios are, in fact participated in that evil. They brandished studio propaganda as fact.