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Watching television or even a film, when have you ever finished one, and felt BETTER for doing it?
But the parent companies such as of CBS own the streaming services, as they had the vision to realize the future popularity of streaming.
CBS's parent owns Pluto TV.
You're only going to pay for early access, if you want that, and after a point, you won't.
Yes, as far as content being stolen or pirated. I guess there are pirate websites that would show re-runs of I Love Lucy, etc.
There are pirate sites that use the arbitrage in time to present content before it's available in other time zones.
The only thing that is really interesting is information, and that's demonetized, it's produced by people who don't give a fuck, and are dedicated to producing information
What are you talking about ? You mean someone on the east coast films a show at 8 PM local time and then posts it on the cloud and makes it available to someone on the west coast ?
This is predicated on the film being broadcast at 8 PM locally in each time zone ?
That tells me the "local good ole boys" and "establishment" expect the local news to be a public relations firm for them.
It's some sort of revolt going on, where people undermine the companies they work for.
I especially hope that employees at Pfizer and Moderna will do that.
Maybe desire to do something good with their lives for a change would motivate them.
"Unethical benefits and perks" is a mental gymnastics or legal -weasel-worded explanation of what a fair and reasonable judge would describe as an intent to engage in a quid pro quo relationship, or bribes.
ZeroHedge ran a delightful article yesterday, headlined “Desperate Disneyland Slashes Children's Ticket Prices By More Than 50%.”
I grew up in Florida. For my whole life, it was well known that Disney didn’t discount admission prices, apart from a small break offered to Florida residents during the hot, low-attendance summer months. Not discounting was part of the brand.
I guess those days are over now.
Now, after tangling with Governor DeSantis about what is properly characterized as Disney’s pro-grooming position, and probably eying an increasingly gloomy economic forecast, Disney has announced a half-off fire sale for kids’ tickets at its California location.
The Epoch Times, which also reported on the story, suggested that the discounts won’t be enough to get conservative parents back in the park. One recent Disneyland visitor told the Epoch Times, "I just don’t think we’ll be taking our kids back any time soon, especially after their new movie basically makes God into the bad guy.” (They were referring to Disney’s latest Pixar blockbuster, Wish.)
It seems like nothing’s been going Disney’s way since they picked that political fight with Florida in 2021 and lost their special tax benefits. ...
The Disney news is even bleaker than when Woody and Buzz got knocked out the window of Andy's moving truck and watched it drive away. Sayeth Bloomberg:
— “Disney+ has lost the company more than $2 billion so far this year and is bleeding subscribers as it tries to raise prices.”
— “Disney (is) worth $160 billion—less than half what it had been (worth) when (Iger) left in 2021.”
— The “movie division is suffering from a string of box-office bombs that call into question its most prized franchises.”
— “Even Disney World in Florida is reporting lower attendance. Iger blamed the humidity.” Hunga Tonga!
— A “current Disney executive close to Iger” explained, “the house is on fire.”
Get woke, go broke!
I grew up in Florida. For my whole life, it was well known that Disney didn’t discount admission prices, apart from a small break offered to Florida residents during the hot, low-attendance summer months. Not discounting was part of the brand.
Finally, has wokeness finally jumped the shark? To fully enjoy this recent South Park clip, recall that, when Disney bought the Star Wars franchise, Disney executive Kathleen Kennedy was put in charge of all development. She made lots of changes. She added female characters that were, um, specifically selected to be not “for the male gaze,” and they were not, in fact, for the male gaze (it’s arguable whether they were for the female gaze either), she deleted long-standing beloved male characters because they were “too masculine,” and she humiliated male characters who survived the purge in a scriptwriting holocaust of reckless character assassination.
With that context, enjoy South Park’s ineffable Erik Cartman sending up Disney, hard:
Its like Disney has been taken over by Marxists who do not care about making money and only care about producing Woke content.
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Its like Disney has been taken over by Marxists who do not care about making money and only care about producing Woke content.
Heres an idea for a script writer....It's solid gold...A remake of Alex Haley's ROOTS. But this time the blacks are the slaveowners and the whites are the slaves...white women will love fantasizing about being raped by their owners. Guilt ridden beta males will relate to being the oppressed. Jussie could get a job in the cast. What's not to like? `
somewhat Woke-programming as far as girl power theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvels
it has a budget of about $275 million ! ! !
Turley’s op-ed opens with Disney’s recently-filed annual SEC financial report. It was a stinker. But what most caught Turley’s eye was the report’s admission that — guess what? — messing about in controversy and politics might be hurting the company’s bottom line. The report wordily acknowledged that:
“We face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel and consumer products. Consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands.”
Eureka! The geniuses at Disney discovered the long-lost concept of misalignment with customers. (And what would they do without euphemisms?) But seriously, why on Earth would any allegedly capitalist company set “environmental and social goals” that are misaligned with their customers? If directors know the ESG goals are misaligned with customers, but do them anyways, should shareholders get to sue the directors for sabotaging the company’s share price?
Add those to the list of unanswerable rhetorical questions.
Ultimately, citing article from last year, Turley suggested that Disney’s CEO Bob Iger might finally be trying to scale back a little on the woke politics. But I don’t think so. Or if he is, it’s only a little. Headline from last week:
Is it just me? Or did South Park just run an episode about this same exact thing?
It’s really too bad Disney can’t fire its customers and get new, woker ones aligned with its ESG goals. On a more serious note, this kind of story is what sometimes makes me think that a little depression might actually be good for this country. These companies must be swimming in so much money it makes them think they can ignore customer preferences. ...
Either way, now is the time for all of us to triple-down on Disney. Cancel everything! Let’s have an anti-Disney Christmas. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Turley’s op-ed opens with Disney’s recently-filed annual SEC financial report. It was a stinker. But what most caught Turley’s eye was the report’s admission that — guess what? — messing about in controversy and politics might be hurting the company’s bottom line. The report wordily acknowledged that:
Disney on Track to Lose Nearly $750 Million Across 13 Films in Historic Year of Box-Office Flops
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