Eisner on Jobs

[ROBONICS95]

Simply pathetic...

Eisner says blame Steve

In his keynote speech on Wednesday morning at the Media and Money conference hosted by Dow Jones and Nielsen, former Disney chief executive Michael Eisner called the ongoing Writer's Guild of America strike "stupid." He said the organization is lobbying for a bigger cut of the profits from digital distribution which he claims simply aren't there.

Eisner called the situation for "Web video" similar, in that the medium has yet to prove lucrative. However, he placed part of the blame on studios and networks for allowing themselves to be strong-armed by Apple and its chief executive.

The studios "make deals with Steve Jobs, who takes them to the cleaners," he said. "They make all these kinds of things, and who's making money? Apple! They should get a piece of Apple. If I was a union, I'd be striking up wherever he is."

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...r_on_jobs.html

[Pressler69]

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I'm confused. Is it pathetic because he's Eisner or is it pathetic because the idea is pathetic?

I've found it hard to choose a side to support on this strike myself.

[ROBONICS95]

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I'm confused. Is it pathetic because he's Eisner or is it pathetic because the idea is pathetic?

I've found it hard to choose a side to support on this strike myself.

I found the verbal attack on Jobs pathetic.

[Monkey joe]

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I found the verbal attack on Jobs pathetic.

Look what Eisner doing now,

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-c...mouse#comments

lol The next Mickey.

[ROBONICS95]

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Saw that this morning as well...

It just keeps getting better and better doesn't it?!

[disneytim]

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I'm not sure I'd call it "pathetic," but I definitely took Eisner's comments as a backhanded swipe against his former employer, considering Jobs' present involvement at Disney.

[Sorcerer's Apprentice]

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tsk, tsk, tsk... what a shame...er sham?

[Dustysage]

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Michael really does make himself look like a bitter, ego-maniacal, corporate has been desperately struggling to be relevant in a world that has passed him by.

[Witches of Morva]

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ORGOCH: Got that right, Dustysagebrush, ducklin'! Matter a fact, I cain't figger out why anybody even wastes their time talkin' ta the ol' loser.

[BlueSkyDriveBy]

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ORGOCH: Got that right, Dustysagebrush, ducklin'! Matter a fact, I cain't figger out why anybody even wastes their time talkin' ta the ol' loser.

Even on his own talk show!

Conversations with Michael Eisner should bring back those "Kill Your Television" bumper stickers any day now.

[Monkey joe]

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Saw that this morning as well...

It just keeps getting better and better doesn't it?!

Yep. At least his son Beck is doing well for himself and support his old man. lol.

[Witches of Morva]

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ORDDU: Does Mr. Eisner have more than one son? My sisters and I don't know for certain, but we once got word from someone we know, who claimed that Mr. Eisner's son was a CEO for some sort of business that was involved with pornography and that he even won an award for running the company so well. It would be interesting to find out if any of that were true--just for our own personal information.

ORGOCH: Speak fer yerself, sister, an' leave me OUTTA yer smut fest, here!!! Maybe YER inta dirty books 'n magazines an' wanna' use this web-footed site ta add ta yer collection but that don't mean me 'n Orwen does!!! Git yer smut from some OTHER place an' leave the ducklin's 'round here OUT of it!!!

[Monkey joe]

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ORDDU: Does Mr. Eisner have more than one son? My sisters and I don't know for certain, but we once got word from someone we know, who claimed that Mr. Eisner's son was a CEO for some sort of business that was involved with pornography and that he even won an award for running the company so well. It would be interesting to find out if any of that were true--just for our own personal information.

ORGOCH: Speak fer yerself, sister, an' leave me OUTTA yer smut fest, here!!! Maybe YER inta dirty books 'n magazines an' wanna' use this web-footed site ta add ta yer collection but that don't mean me 'n Orwen does!!! Git yer smut from some OTHER place an' leave the ducklin's 'round here OUT of it!!!

Eisner has two sons. Beck is a director. He directed Sahara for Paramount two years ago, I believe.

[Witches of Morva]

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ORDDU: Hmmmm....so it's TWO sons he has, is it? It must be the OTHER one that was a CEO for the 'adult entertainment', then. Thank you for sharing what you knew, Monkey joe, dear.

[Cmash95]

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well mr eisner is still a major stockholder in disney so he has a right to complain I guess and there has never been any love lost between jobs and eisner. remember that's why disney was going to lose the deal with pixar. and I agree with him on one thing. apple is making most of the money right now when it comes to downloads after all they set the price of the downloads. of course if he was still head of disney he would never have partnered with apple in the first place so there wouldn't be any downloaded materials.

[DisneyMickey]

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He's just bitter. Imagine if he was still in charge, Disney would completely be missing out on the digital market and falling even further behind.

[drb]

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If there really are no studio profits from digital distribution, why are they fighting the WGA over their demands for two or three percent of it? If they're really gaining nothing from it, surely it would cost them nothing to give writers a small percent of that nothing. And if Steve Jobs and Apple are making more money than the studios, then all that proves is that Steve Jobs is a smarter deal maker, so isn't it considered good that Disney has him working on their side as well?

Eisner's grapes are looking really sour.

[Retrocool]

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My Hanukkah present to Michael Eisner (not that he celebrates it):

[disneyfan07]

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if you look up michael eisner in the dictionary this is what you would find:



**** head!!!! *******!!!! jerk!!! moron!!!!! dumb****!!!!! and he is not nice either

[mousechild]

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Well taken in context of digital distribution payments Eisner kind of has it right. The studios are paying a tremendous amount to have Apple handle the distribution. The studios are making very little money off of the sale of each copy of a song or movie. On the other hand they do not have to pay for the setup and operation of the website doing the selling. If the director and writers and the editors get much more than the 4 cents that the writers currently get for each DVD sale there will be very little left for the studio. It has been a long time since I have read the numbers but I think the studios are getting less than 20 cents on the songs and less than a dollar on the movies. If the studios have little or no profit from online movie sales they will not have much incentive to distribute them online. Bad deals no matter who you make them with are usually bad deals.

Much as we might not like Eisner he does know his numbers.