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Tone Deaf Disney CEO Bob Iger disses the Screen Actors Guild

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Guessing Disney CEO Bob Iger’s base salary at something north of $20MIL/year. I found myself cheering for him for standing up against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and for standing up for the LGBTQ community.

Now he reveals himself as totally out of touch with ordinary working stiffs. What a disappoint he dissed the Screen Actors Guild.

www.independent.co.uk

She-Hulk writer leads outrage at Disney’s Bob Iger calling strikes ‘very disturbing’

Millionaire said strikers do not have ‘realistic’ expectations
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The thread title is misleading if the topic has nothing to do with Bob Iger being deaf. How is that problem relevant to supporting LGBT rights?
 
Iger is an idiot, and he isn't wrong about the union demands, they are unrealistic.

The only way it would be realistic, is if unions were expected to help cover the losses incurred for shows/content/films which never succeed and end up being a loss/

Everybody wants a bigger slice of the success pie, but nobody wants to chip in for the failure pie.
 
We need more outrage today, that should take care of this screen actors guild issue.
 
Trippy Trekker said:
Guessing Disney CEO Bob Iger’s base salary at something north of $20MIL/year. I found myself cheering for him for standing up against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and for standing up for the LGBTQ community.

Now he reveals himself as totally out of touch with ordinary working stiffs. What a disappoint he dissed the Screen Actors Guild.

www.independent.co.uk

She-Hulk writer leads outrage at Disney’s Bob Iger calling strikes ‘very disturbing’

Millionaire said strikers do not have ‘realistic’ expectations
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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Him and other studio/streaming CEOs are in quite the bind. It's tone deaf, but not because he doesn't see what's happening, but what he has to say as a CEO. He talked about the strike coming at a bad time because it's disruptive (which a strike always is), and it's at a particularly bad time because the entire media business model has done a 180 recently where there's a hard investor demand on these companies to turn a profit.

From a timing perspective, it's tough for these companies in that the actor/writer demands will cut into already uncertain profit margins, but now is the time for actors and writers to sort out how their compensation works in the streaming landscape. Securing rights to their image, voice, etc. is another critical component in these talks knowing what can be done technologically to create content. The important thing to remember here is media companies made a business decision to put many of their eggs in the streaming basket, despite being unable to recreate the profitability of the linear broadcast model. Now we have these companies rushing to make their streaming apps profitable in the face of a dying linear broadcast model, but with little success.
 
ElChupacabra said:
Him and other studio/streaming CEOs are in quite the bind. It's tone deaf, but not because he doesn't see what's happening, but what he has to say as a CEO. He talked about the strike coming at a bad time because it's disruptive (which a strike always is), and it's at a particularly bad time because the entire media business model has done a 180 recently where there's a hard investor demand on these companies to turn a profit.

From a timing perspective, it's tough for these companies in that the actor/writer demands will cut into already uncertain profit margins, but now is the time for actors and writers to sort out how their compensation works in the streaming landscape. Securing rights to their image, voice, etc. is another critical component in these talks knowing what can be done technologically to create content. The important thing to remember here is media companies made a business decision to put many of their eggs in the streaming basket, despite being unable to recreate the profitability of the linear broadcast model. Now we have these companies rushing to make their streaming apps profitable in the face of a dying linear broadcast model, but with little success.
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Demands to pay supporting (bit part) actors more may end up causing more AI (machine generated) replacements to be used.
 
ElChupacabra said:
Him and other studio/streaming CEOs are in quite the bind. It's tone deaf, but not because he doesn't see what's happening, but what he has to say as a CEO.
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There is only one definition of "tone deaf" and that is not it.
 
Trippy Trekker said:
Guessing Disney CEO Bob Iger’s base salary at something north of $20MIL/year. I found myself cheering for him for standing up against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and for standing up for the LGBTQ community.

Now he reveals himself as totally out of touch with ordinary working stiffs. What a disappoint he dissed the Screen Actors Guild.

www.independent.co.uk

She-Hulk writer leads outrage at Disney’s Bob Iger calling strikes ‘very disturbing’

Millionaire said strikers do not have ‘realistic’ expectations
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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Have a little closer look at the movie stars strike.

No working 'stiff' ever had it so good. Vancouver is "Hollywood North". Actors here are all on unemployment half the year and reap $1,000 here and there for a half day, $8,000 next week only pausing the UIC. Part time work at 3x the wage.

And they brag about it!
 
Patriotic Voter said:
There is only one definition of "tone deaf" and that is not it.
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The current economy enables Disney to pay it’s CEO Bob Iger millions of dollars per year. Bob Iger has characterized the demands made by the guild as economically unrealistic. His summary of the situation comes off as “tone deaf” (insensitive).

Florida Gov. DeSantis has made homophobia a central part of his campaign theme. When Disney came out against Florida legislation dubbed “Don’t Say Gay”, DeSantis went to war with Disney. Disney brought back former CEO Bob Iger. He emerged as the new face of Disney management. Those with vested interests tend to fall in one or the other camp, Pro-Disney or Pro-DeSantis. In my opinion, Bob Iger’s stock fell as a result of his apparent insensitivity to the actors guild.
 
Trippy Trekker said:
The current economy enables Disney to pay it’s CEO Bob Iger millions of dollars per year. Bob Iger has characterized the demands made by the guild as economically unrealistic. His summary of the situation comes off as “tone deaf” (insensitive).
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"Tone deaf" does not mean insensitive.

But if anyone is insensitive, that guy obviously is Con DeathSantis. He has spent years trying to be the next Donald Rump.
 
Patriotic Voter said:
"Tone deaf" does not mean insensitive.

But if anyone is insensitive, that guy obviously is Con DeathSantis. He has spent years trying to be the next Donald Rump.
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www.merriam-webster.com

Definition of TONE-DEAF

relatively insensitive to differences in musical pitch; having or showing an obtuse insensitivity or lack of perception particularly in matters of public sentiment, opinion, or taste… See the full definition
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Patriotic Voter said:
"Tone deaf" does not mean insensitive.

But if anyone is insensitive, that guy obviously is Con DeathSantis. He has spent years trying to be the next Donald Rump.
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Jesus Christ it's an expression, if it triggers you just close the browser.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Demands to pay supporting (bit part) actors more may end up causing more AI (machine generated) replacements to be used.
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We're not there yet, and that would require more production work, since you would have to have someone act as the stand-in for the AI generated character. Even if you generate a person using an AI created character, there would be CGI work required too, and that area's going to come to a head soon too. CGI artists are not unionized and getting worked to burnout levels where people are quitting and new workers are harder to find. There's a lot of talk of them unionizing, which they should.
 
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