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vongleichent  02/29/2012 01:45 PM Report

Walt Disney by fare the best brand in the world.

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artperson  03/08/2011 03:20 AM Report

Has Disney really changed? Disney steals script ideas and characters and plots; at least, they did in the past. I certainly hesitate to trust them. You have to wonder just a bit when someone is this polished. Obviously, he's the right man for the job. He is interesting, though.

JohnGelles  03/06/2011 05:00 PM Report

I wrote this to my economics forum buddies who often agree with people here:

The biggest economic question today is to choose -- AUSTERITY or very high government pump priming INVESTMENT in infrastructure, energy, health care, green manufacturing, education, etc.

This means BORROWING until no one will lend, or PRINTING MONEY until no one will sell to us at the price we we must pay to keep inflation under control.

Conservatives claim such very high investment in manufacturing and pump priming will BANKRUPT our posterity.

What nonsense.

Our creditors expect us to repay from money we will receive in due course from their own and other buyers.

IF NOT--WHAT DO THEY EXPECT ?

Endless paper dollars?

Nothing at all?

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Of course, as long as they lend they expect fair repayment.

Of course, when they stop lending we will have to produce what we buy.

Of course, if we will have to produce, the fact that we will produce NOW the products listed above and improve NOW our skills to make these products, means we will be far better off than if we tried austerity.

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What else can be said ?

doodah  03/06/2011 09:17 AM Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Lf7yNhdtk

doodah  03/06/2011 08:37 AM Report

Who me?, John. No no no you got me all wrong. I like cat and mouse games. Let's see, there's Tom&Jerry, Sylvester&Tweety, MightyMouse, MickeyMouse, DonaldDuck, and my favorite of all, DaffyDuck.

The politicized educational system worked, I've been conditioned to love the glorious rhetoric and the reality (cat & mouse games) that keeps me so humble. :)

JohnGelles  03/06/2011 05:10 AM Report

Please excuse the double spacing. I did not intend for it to happen. Too bad this software does not permit me to correct it now.

averageperson  03/05/2011 01:44 PM Report

I don't think the owners of the happiest place on earth are interested in going into the education business. On the other hand I think it would be great if educators would emulate Disney's passion to achieve the best product possible using creativity, inovation, and technology.

doodah  03/05/2011 09:35 AM Report

Something like that might work for awhile, until the politicians take it over, just like they did with the original educational system. Eventually the marketers at Coca-Cola will feel compelled to 'push more Coke'(pardon the pun) and then the politicians will be called in to rescue (AT A VERY HIGH PRICE). .. the cat and mouse games will never end. Unless there really is something to this high-tech bullshit.?

JohnGelles  03/05/2011 08:22 AM Report

Just suppose Disney (with or without Government partnerships for world class R&D, diplomacy and defense) built a university second to none in science, engineering, teaching, the humanities and performing arts) and it included "vacation land" and "play land" for shorter than semester courses. It would be a center, also, for small satellite colleges across nation and around the world. And it would also serve the billions on earth who connected to it by wireless communications systems.

Simultaneously, the great universities of the world would reach out to their young and old constituencies with education modeled on moral entertainment and compelling learning situations and opportunities. The universities would compete to entertain the world as the entertainment complexes competed to educate it.

And at the heart of all this hub-bub would be real things -- not just words or money. In the beginning was the thing. In the end it is still the thing. The words and money are derivative and should remain so.

doodah  03/05/2011 07:57 AM Report

As usual, a very thoughtful and thorough insight, Mr. Gelles.

As the late great Waylon Jennings once said in his song, "No, I don't think Frank Zappa done it that a way. NO! I Don't Think Frank Done It That a WAY!"

JohnGelles  03/05/2011 06:41 AM Report

When it comes to news, sports and entertainment, and all things foreign to our daily struggle to prevail or survive, (because we are an audience not a participant,) we find passion and popularity of these things is immense.

In school or at work we may be, competitively speaking, somewhere in the middle of the pack. But when it comes to being in the audience, our own performance is not tested. We become the judge of others. We can relax for the time we are there to judge and not be judged.

THEY are serving US -- doing their damndist to win our approval, appeal to our instincts, excite and addict us. We are the object of their attention -- and the suckers who pay through the nose for really nothing at all.

And among the suppliers of these circuses, these greatest shows on earth, Walt Disney stands out as numero uno -- the overall champion in selling the sizzle and not the steak.

On balance, some say the steak is PBS and BBC. Turner Classic movies tries hard to make it all free -- with no ads and no subscriptions (or nearly none).

America is the National Entertainment State. Disney, Fox, Time-Warner are ours. Soon, China and India will have bigger not better brands. Can anything good come from it all or be said on its behalf?

In most places the middle class audience's time is stolen by advertisers, as its collection of minds is poisoned to become addicted to small pleasures that distract it from serving its own best interests.

All that (above) said, news, sports and entertainment, for the fans who sit while the stars run, are here to stay. They will be exploited. And they will love it too. It's often the best part of the day.

What, of anything is the alternative? Live the examined life? Stay inside your own head? Balance your time perfectly to participate as much or more than you watch? Yes to all of these.

But I digress. The real end of the Iger story is the future of the digital impact on commercial entertainment. Will we be able to turn education and training over to the professions who now distract us -- such that they will prepare us to earn a living ourselves and not just make them rich?

I say they will if we wake up and see the difference between being drugged and used and taking charge of our own time and attention and putting a leash and muzzle on the dogs that bite us where it hurts.

doodah  03/04/2011 08:22 PM Report

No wonder Disney seems to be regaining some of it's original appeal since Michael Eisner left it. What does Eisner do now? manage a Wendys.?. .. just like a vulture, he was probably licking his chops when Dave Thomas lay on his death bed.

blank  03/04/2011 04:46 PM Report

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12634109

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/opinion/04krugman.html

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/can-exercise-keep-you-young/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06eat-t.html

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/04/2011 04:03 PM Report

Great Interview!

Point on Pixar:

MICHAEL EISNER: "No, if you say yes to Steve (Jobs) you have a very good relationship with Steve. So if you are determining your relationship by your agreement with him, fine I have a very good relationship with Steve until I said no, I won’t pay that amount of money. So that is not the issue. Bob (Iger) wanted peace in the kingdom."

So it appears that Steve Jobs is a Prima Donna who wanted too much money for Pixar. (I couldn't find the Eisner quote but do remember Michael Eisner saying the price for Pixar was so high that every Pixar film had to gross around half a billion dollars just to break even.)

So Charlie, rather than shower faint praise on Bob Iger for his magic with a Prima Donna how about asking about the money? It appears to me that Mr. Iger thought past the incredibly high Pixar price to get some iPod business. So the end justified the means even if the price was pure b.s. just as Michael Eisner said. (Michael Eisner was wrong of course but that is from the rear view mirror.)

Bob Iger seems to be the President Obama of Disney and has a much "wider stance" than Mr. Eisner--so to speak.

REMant  03/04/2011 01:00 PM Report

If someone asked a decade or so ago how things were going at a film studio, the answer would be about the films not the profits. Too, when you see an advertisement anymore you can be certain that whatever they are saying, the reverse is more likely true. It's become a matter of PR, the image more important than the product. Gone are the days when the model threw up her arms and announced: "The new 19xx Plymouth, or Mercury or Pontiac!" Not only is the commercial gone, but also the cars, which may have had something to do with the change in marketing strategy. iPods, Pads and apps hold out the promise not only of direct delivery, but also a solution to piracy. But they also tell me the public had reached the limit of its desire to understand computing technology. I not only never buy anything I see advertised, BTW, I've installed Flashblock on all my browsers.