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Yes, we know we're a little behind schedule this month, but better late than never (that's what we tell ourselves, at least). This week, some commentary on the Commentary Roast, we get drafted into the streaming wars, some musing on the Woke Industrial Complex currently raging the in media business, and some musings on Dave Chapelle.
John Podhoretz
Jonah Goldberg
Rob Long
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Chappelle wasn't lieing for the joke. He was pointing out that society has limited free speech to those who are acceptable, making it no longer free.
Mike Pence puritanical? Goldberg please.
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Not to nit pick but a G6 is a Pontiac. A G5 is an airplane. So as Rob said this, I imagined him driving around the world in a '07 Pontiac G6 - and he's imagining he's living the posh life. (Dont you just love it, when people say not to nit pick, but then go straight ahead with it?)
What Netflix is saying that they'd rather take $500 million and buy 1 audience proven property - than to spend it developing 25 (?) original programs that are a much higher risk profile? Isnt that the recipe for creating a smaller audience? When Disney takes away all the Marvell content for their own streaming service, CBS takes away all the Star Trek for their streaming services, whats going to be on Netflix? Old sitcoms, non-franchised movies and bad cop shows?
I think the studios have figured out that Netflix doesnt have a special sauce that adds value to their properties. So they'll build out their own streaming services milk their fan bases for the $9.95 a month directly. Warner, Disney and CBS all have massive catalogs of old shows they could stream and generate new revenue streams from. Leaving Netflix in the cold.
Netflix is being short sighted - they should have spent that $500 million on new content. But leveraged that spending to access to back catalogs.
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I look forward to the issue of that magazine.
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The performances by the actors who played the serial killers in Mindhunters were fantastic. The rest was uneven and often tiresome.
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Hmm, by giving us Bill Deblasio's name, did you just ***dead name*** him? For shame.
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