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+1, it's unbearable, especially on Disney/Netflix content. But what do you expect? They are editing books from 100 years ago to "bend with the times". Books! A
by epolanski 4y ago
+1, it's unbearable, especially on Disney/Netflix content.
But what do you expect? They are editing books from 100 years ago to "bend with the times". Books! As if having an informative introduction or contextualization to the book but leaving it alone would be a worse option.
- teachrdan 4y agoI'm confused. Is Netflix editing books from 100 years ago? Is Disney? It seems like you're conflating two completely unrelated phenomena: 1. Publishers getting tons of free publicity by announcing cosmetic changes to old books, and 2. Netflix investing $2.5 billion in South Korean programming. As for 1 above, the publisher of Roald Dahl's books have released the original AND edited versions of his books, thus creating new content for people to purchase and demand for consumers to rage-buy the old version. https://variety.com/2023/film/news/matilda-roald-dahl-rewritten-rerelease-1235534515/ https://variety.com/2023/film/news/matilda-roald-dahl-rewrit...
- epolanski 4y agoI'm not conflating different phenomena I'm talking about sensitivity readers and the recent wave of editing all books to be more pc.
- teachrdan 4y agoThen I'm curious how "sensitivity readers" relates to Netflix investing $2.5 billion in South Korean television programming. Could you perhaps explain how these two things relate to each other at all?