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49: Selling Shovels

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The Myth of the Iger Strike

Julian Zelizer: Bob Iger was speaking out of a level of frustration from the perspective of a negotiation. He said everything's ridiculous until you have to come together, and that came across as being he was doing some of the negotiation. Zelizer: If you've paid attention to the newspaper industry and the media industry is private equity. Who in the right mind is buying ABC after Bob Iger has said? There's no attention on it. The content itself is, is, is basically been removed to go to streaming.

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