A conversation with Peter Chernin

with Peter Chernin
in Technology, Business
on Monday, August 4, 2008 * * * * *

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A conversation with Peter Chernin, President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of the Fox Group.

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    1. roger   08/27/2008 10:55 PM Report

      Who woulda thought that Mr. Chernin was a Democrat? Charlie, you gonna just let that one slide in there...Mr. Fox a democrat...am I missing something here? Charlie, did you sign an agreement before the show...lobbs only...sign here. Charlie, what's going on?

    2. where is ?  08/27/2008 10:45 PM Report

      Why didn't you ask any questions? This was a tea sipping session

    3. Mike Vitelli  08/07/2008 07:56 PM Report

      both of you...write a check for the nets will ya?

    4. Irish  08/06/2008 10:23 PM Report

      reminds me of Rod Steiger as Jud Fry: "Jud was the most misundrestood man in this here territory. People used to think he was a mean ugly feller and they called him a dirty skunk and an ornery pig stealer". Kidding! Seems like someone you'd want on your side. But cant you just see Rod playing him?

    5. Jackson  08/06/2008 02:47 PM Report

      Mark, that is just about the funniest comment I've ever seen posted on the internet. What an excellent job you did cherry picking one line out of context and then using it to fuel a ridiculous rant. Oh, and as for your example of a great film you point to Citizen Kane. Nice touch.

      Make a good movie? Just off the top of my head Little Miss Sunshine; Walk the Line; Juno; Last King of Scotland. All movies made under Fox.

      Chernin is universally respected as one of the more brilliant thinkers in the entertainment industry. Check out the write-up of this interview in the LA times.

    6. Mark  08/05/2008 11:19 PM Report

      "You're going to go to some event because everybody's talking about it."

      Pete,

      Nope. I'm not one of your Fox drones. Here's a complicated idea for you:

      Make a good movie and you'll get my butt back in the theater. A well-written movie. A well-acted movie. A well-directed movie.

      Not some piece of Fox crap in which everything either blows up every 30 seconds or there's a puberty joke every other line.

      I know this about kills you, boy. Father Rupert and Uncle Roger have done so much to make ours a stupid society, but not everyone in America is an idiot, Pete. Not everyone is a sheep.

      And not everyone thinks Father Rupert is anything more than another in a long line of self-aggrandizing, self-centered power brokers with young cupcake wives.

      See Citizen Kane, a great movie, for evidence that Father Rupert is not even unique or the first of his kind.

      Make a good flick and you've got me.

      Continue to make more and more pre-pubescent garbage and I won't spend my money on Fox flicks.

      I know, I know, Peter. I'm a commie, terrorist sympathizing, left-wing liberal, anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-First Amendment kinda guy.

      After all, if I don't march in lockstep to the desires of Father Rupert and turn six times a day towards Melbourne to bow in quiet awe, I just can't be one of your people.

      Free will. Try it sometime, Peter. Odds are, it won't kill even you.

    7. Jerry  08/05/2008 02:58 PM Report

      News Crap sucks

    8. Jerry Kemp, Founder  08/05/2008 01:13 PM Report

      Charlie, this interview and the show discussing the iPhone 3G with Walter Mossberg, Steven Levy, Michael Arrington are the best I've seen you produce regarding the future of content distribution and social interaction. Apparently, you have visited our website (textcoupons.info), seen our "Green Book" on your phone (gogreenbook.mobi) and know that the channels Peter Chernin referred to are already here and growing. At TVN Direct Text Marketing, we are already delivering commercials for The Melting Pot in the Restaurant section with "Click2Call" and "Meet Me Here" service included. This allows consumers to "Click2Call" without having to look up phone numbers. "Meet Me Here" allows fathers to notify the rest of family members from their phone that the baby is on the way during a stressful time without fumbling for directions to the hospital. I sometimes enjoy sock puppet's and RE Mant's ramblings, but it's unfortunate that Mr. Chernin's clear expalanation of the concept of individual choice as a determinant of market success was somehow missed. Mr. Chernin's company will probably be the one to buy ours someday.

    9. BornN2Film  08/05/2008 09:03 AM Report

      content for cellphone market infowas enlightening. Agree 100% on the actors postion and the problems it is causing with work for everyone else in this town. Where can you get financing for the cell phone formula Mr. Chernin said would service those higher network capabilities in the foreign countries?

      Excellent interview.

    10. sock puppet  08/05/2008 02:07 AM Report

      duh and RE Mant - Huh?

    11. duh  08/05/2008 01:10 AM Report

      GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE, the content will sell itself, however no one will know its there without the goooey, it's the gooey that will make the content not the other way around, pop culture is in and of itself a selling point that just needs to remind those of its relevance, the right gooey does that, brute range. k, f o. and your welcome

    12. sock puppet  08/05/2008 12:55 AM Report

      OMG - I'm destroyed. He claims to be a Democrat? Explodes my belief that Fox is populated by settled-minded neo-cons championed by Rush Limbaugh types. So hard to assimilate this startling info. it makes me think he is being disingenuous. But being wrong would be refreshing. Like it's a new phenomenom. Too ingrained. Still wont watch it - much.

    13. sock puppet  08/05/2008 12:21 AM Report

      Fox is THE toilet in a universe of toilets.

    14. RE Mant  08/05/2008 12:06 AM Report

      If you have infinite choice, you have zero substance, by definition, so I presume you mean that the problem these days is to produce something a significant number of ppl will choose, but if they don't know what they want, how can they? I am not sure that increasing choices therefore helped increase the overall value. I would guess the Fox founders have the same attitude as its news operation. Berkeley was also free in 1969, if I recall correctly. What has the Internet become primarily except the CB thing with ads added? It may become a new delivery system, but I doubt it will ever be attractive on an entirely pay-per-use basis. The strength of newspapers and TV stations was their natural monopoly, allowing them to operate at low or non-existent flat fees, but they also reflected commonality. With "dis-establishment" the best anyone can do is the equivalent of religious revivalism, altho you may get some mileage from your archives, but channel surfers will not be long-term patrons. And it is hard to view this process of democratization as anything other than disintegration, even as it increases monopoly ownership.