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The ban was bullshit- good on disney for axing it.

• webkike 9y ago
  No, bad on Disney for doing it in the first place.
  • pwinnski 9y ago
    Crazily enough, it can be both bad on Disney for doing something bad, and good on them for ending it. Best of all, this should serve as an example to other companies tempted to do similarly-terrible things. It probably won't, but it should.
    • jhall1468 9y ago
      They ended it because they bit of more than they could chew, not out of altruism. Once they had threats of losing out on critics awards, they jumped ship instantly.
      • r00fus 9y ago
        Reward good behavior, punish bad behavior. Recognition to Disney for ending their bullshit ban, but they still need to answer for their position on the $1.2b Anaheim parking lot that the city "leases" to them for $1/yr.
        • thaumasiotes 9y ago
          Why would Disney need to answer for that? If you could lease a billion dollar property for $1 / year, wouldn't you? Anaheim should answer for that.
          • r00fus 9y ago
            I think it's perfectly fair to ask companies like Disney and Nestle [1] why they're getting sweetheart deals from local governments where they're going to make millions or billions out of that property. [1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nestle-water-lawsuit-20151013-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nestle-water-lawsuit-2...
      • SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
        This assume Disney has a single, coherent plan. This sounds like a VP did something stupid and probably spent all of today getting reamed by CEO + SVPs.
        • webkike 9y ago
          They absolutely do have a single, coherent plan, just as all businesses do: make money
          • SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
            > They absolutely do have a single, coherent plan, just as all businesses do: make money Do you mind if I quote you on this? My team has had a stressful time on our project and I think our manager could use a good laugh. There isn't a coherent plan to make money -- or even accepting that as the primary goal -- at many or even most large companies, because people have different ideas of how you make money (particularly over anything more than 12 months). My point was that one (S)VP that was tasked with handling a broad part of the business and blew a call badly, misusing broad authority over PR to retaliate over unfavorable coverage. This became public on Friday and PR had a statement ready on Tuesday. The timing makes me suspect that senior executives caught wind of it Friday evening/over the weekend and shut it down Monday. However, they stalled a day to get their PR ducks in a row, since they didn't see an immediate mass reaction on Monday. Their one-day delayed PR release on an immediate (business-week) shutdown of that behavior came out concurrently with other PR releases and ended up looking reactive. (Pure conjecture, but it smells like this.) I doubt Disney backed down in a weekend if all of the senior executives were in agreement about strategy -- this sounds like the head of PR was given rope and decided he liked nooses.
            • webkike 9y ago
              Consider this: would Disney have changed this practice should it proven to not be a PR firestorm? If they thought they could actively reduce costs or increase profits with this plan, I highly doubt they would change. that is my point: if something is actively producing profit, the plan is to increase profits. Whether or not the actions people within the company effect this does not matter in the slightest, because the only thing people measure or care about as a meaningful indicator of improvement is increased profits. > Do you mind if I quote you on this? > My team has had a stressful time on our project and I think our manager could use a good laugh. I'm not sure you intended this but the wording of this pretty offensive
      • PeachPlum 9y ago
        Having made the error of judgment are you suggesting they should have stuck to their guns and doubled down on it. Perhaps banning all the newspapers that reported the first ban?
  • r00fus 9y ago
    And for their actual corruptive capture of Anaheim. I mean, thats why they banned LAT in the first place right?
  • SN76477 9y ago
    Disney are not perfect but this move is really out of character for them. I wonder if it is some ego driven VP that made this call in the first place.