Bob Iger Says 'Woke' Disney Is Over, But it May Not Silence His Critics

MSN ^ | 4/3 | Lucia Moses, Madeline Berg

[nickcarraway]

Disney CEO Bob Iger emphasized that the company would focus on entertaining over advancing "any kind of agenda," just after the media giant survived a proxy fight waged by activist shareholders.

Asked during Disney's annual shareholder meeting Q&A on April 3 if the company would just provide entertainment and stay out of politics, Iger said Disney's job was to "entertain, first and foremost."

"I've always believed that we have a responsibility to do good in the world, but we know our job is not to advance any kind of agenda," he said on the live-streamed meeting. "For as long as I'm in the job, I'm going to continue to be guided by a sense of decency and respect, and we'll always trust our instincts."

[alternatives?]

They are burying the visibility of DEI into human resources but still maintaining the goals in their hiring and movie making.

[mjp]

The goal of a business is to maximize its profits and create value for its shareholders. The pursuit of profit encourages businesses to efficiently allocate resources, innovate, and respond to market demands. By striving to generate profits, businesses contribute to economic growth, job creation, and overall prosperity.
Also, they must constantly improve their products or services, attract customers, and adapt to changing market conditions They must focus on customer satisfaction and offer better quality, variety, and affordability.
Finally, they should engage in fair and voluntary transactions, respect property rights, and avoid engaging in fraudulent or deceptive practices

[Liz]

Disney fired their diversity director.....but the sleepless.... woke Latondra Newton said she quit.

Disney's chief diversity officer Latondra Newton is reportedly leaving the company — ending a six-year stint that generated controversies as the Mouse House adopted “woke” policies that have alienated many of its core customers. (Jun 21, 2023)

[KC Burke]

Talk is cheap.

[TalBlack]

They can’t get rid of woke without hiring non woke talent. Woke writers and directors and producers can’t help injecting their spurious religion into anything and everything they do.

[Liz]

The not too bright Disney Snow Woke actress stupidly trashed the movie.....
<><>she was cued to use hate-filled feminist themes.....
<><>calling the original prince a creepy stalker
<><>who was in a testosterone-filled rage......
<><>the woke version would not be about finding love,
<><>but about Snow White finding her feminist leadership ability,
<><>and her male-suppressed inner equality, etc.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Disney's big problem is that they can not hire people who can write their way out of a paper bag.

There is a reason for that and they did it to themselves so, don't care.

Taking a old story and "put a chick in it and make her gay" is really all they have.

Watch their movies from before 2000. Sure they had the woke stuff in it but there was still some semblance of story and character development. After 2012 things began to go badly down hill. That was when the writers began to avoid Disney.

Many of them could not say why, The House of Mouse was making them sign NDAs before talking to them about their not getting paid. The conversation was, "we ain't paying you JS." But it was quietly rumored that if you signed with Disney you were going to get screwed. So the bigger and better writers were avoiding them as did the talented new guys. After all the rumors were confirmed in 2020 they can not even hire bottom of the barrel independent script writers.

And I find it extremely funny.

[spankalib]

Looks like strabismus...

It's difficult to figure out which eye to follow.

[usurper]

and we'll always trust our instincts.

That hasn't worked out so well for your investors. Perhaps your instincts are the problem.

[fastrock]

Not likely
Bob was the CEO who put Disney on the Woke track

[nickcarraway]

I didn’t even like the ones from 20 years before 2000.

[HYPOCRACY]

Iger has run out of IP to buy and run into the ground. Disney will be broken up by PE and its destroyed IPs will be sold for pennies on the dollar.

[californian by choice]

Bud is not doing very well; Now that The Dylan Mulvaney syndrome is at Disney, they are going to have nightmares for a long time

[nickcarraway]

There is plenty of IP, and they could create new IP - if they really wanted to.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My only question is when will the fire sale happen?

[HYPOCRACY]

2 years.

[HYPOCRACY]

They’ll quietly try to sell things that still have value, then when they get low balled, the fire sale will commence.

[Zathras]

When does “Snow Whatever and the Village People” come out?

[jocon307]

If you want to make a movie about a black female pirate just do it. That’s the thing with these lefties they just want to canabalize other’s work.

[vpintheak]

Not buying it until you release some decent content, Iger.