Here’s a Thought
It just occurred to me: there might be one unique source of pressure to make Disney decide to yank “Path to 9/11” from TV: Apple.
Consider: Steve Jobs recently joined Disney’s board, as a powerful new force. Jobs has never been outwardly political, to my knowledge at least, and seems to be more focused on business. But on September 12, just one day after the controversial movie is supposed to be broadcast, Apple is expected to make a very important announcement about a new movie download service–and it is expected that Disney will be their primary, if not their only, initial source of media.
This could be a huge turning point for Apple, a very important event, and for their major partner to be disgraced in a media scandal the day before the unveiling–well, Jobs might very well want to avoid that. And that could very well lead to pressure on Iger to do the right thing–or at least the right thing for good business.
You make a very, very good point here.
Who buys Ipods?
Who uses them?
For that matter who has all the disposable income?
What might their politics be?
Young people have fairly found memories of the Clinton administration – eight years of peace and prosperity.
Young people are the ones that are facing the burden of baring Bush’s wars.
My brother sells to this same market, though a notch poorer then Ipod buyers. His sales are way down, and he senses the young adults are in a terrible funk. His own late teens early 20s kids (the age group he sells too as well) all know someone who is either in Iraq, returnd from Irag and many know someone has died in Iraq.
The whole burden of the Bush administrations fanciful policies are being born by them.
That doesn’t include the huge deficits these kids will spend their life times undoing.
If Disney and ABC carry on with this monsterous show it will be a disgrace of major proportions – and much, much, much greater then the Reagan miniseries that the wingnuts didn’t like.
Apple could very well lose its mojo. Jump the shark, they could.
They’ll lose their image of empowering the hip new generation. That creates an opening for some one else to slide through.
I can’t believe Jobs would let that happen. Too much riding on it. $40 million for that piece of docuganda is not that much for them to swallow. The kind of mojo Apple has right now is worth far more than that. Its hard to capture that kind of lightening in a bottle. When it becomes widespread known that it was written by and underwritten by right wing religious fanatics. Welll….
The thugs have just about worn out their lifespan. As newer generations cycle through, and old jarheads drop off, their propaganda is good, but I don’t know who, what or how anyone can support them much longer.
As I think I posted earlier. The Republicans put the interest of 18 uber-wealthy families inherentance tax concerns above a minimum wage for 300 million Americans. Its come out that the meadian family wage has gone down even while the gnp has gone up. Had wages kept even with GNP the last 25 years, the meadian wage would be at least double. It won’t be long when Democrats can ask people: would your life be better if you made triple the wage you make now? Would it make it easier for you to live a more ethical life? If you or your spouse made tripple, would one of you spend more time at home with your children? Would poor people be less self destructive or less likely to recourse to crime? Tripple your wage and imagine what life would be like – that’s what it was like for your grandfather. And that’s what 25 years of Republican dominance of the political system has gotten us.
Now imagine the kid who can’t get a job much better than working at Target, faced with the prospect of ending up in Iraq, and the prospect of paying high wages or pulling the plug on social security of their parents generation.
The republican are mean, ugly, evil people and a scourge upon our times. I can’t think of anything more vile then turning our once promising golden age in to a dark age of war, violence, poverty and huge disparities in the distribution of wealth and poverty. They are so stupid, and they deserve to rot in hell at boiling tempatures.
So much suffing never needed to happen but for their greed.