.PivotPod co-host karaswisher on the crisis at Disney over the company's response to Florida’s anti-LGBTQ+ law
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images The first that anyone heard of Disney’s stance on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law was anything but clear, with CEO Bob Chapek saying that “the biggest impact we can have in creating a more inclusive world is through the inspiring content we produce.” It was an uncharacteristically lukewarm statement from the company whose flagship theme park and other businesses contribute about $75 billion a year to the state’s economy.
Yeah. Disney runs Florida. It’s a critically important employer and an important political force, and everybody knows that. And it’s not necessarily always positive, right? They get into scrapes with locals all the time. They were trying to play it all ways. It was just dumb. It was unsophisticated. It was ill-thought-out.
For the past few years, Disney has been changing. It removed gendered pronouns from theme parks and committed to more underrepresented characters. But does this feel different to you? No, I don’t think he wants to. It creates an opening for someone like Peter Rice, who is an executive there. Peter is really adept and spent years having to deal with Rupert Murdoch. But I don’t think Iger’s coming back. The most I think he would do is be chairman to help Peter Rice. But Chapek will probably survive this — it’s a really big deal to remove him. But he doesn’t have any more mistakes left. I suspect they’re gonna have some real issues around streaming economics.
That was important. The really good ones were the Pixar and Marvel ones. Everything Bob One has done is really smart. That’s the thing: You’ve got the cashmere prince followed by the rayon clod. Not rayon — I’m sure he dresses very nicely.
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