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Hurrah for new HBO boss uncanceling J.K. Rowling
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zinn
Jul 30, 2022, 4:08:03 AM7/30/22
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Expelliarmus! And faster than you can say Severus Snape, the dork magic
that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of
her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.
You may have noticed that when it came time to engineer a Harry Potter
20th-anniversary reunion on New Year’s Day for HBO Max, the company seemed
to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.
That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
“Fantastic Beasts” star Katherine Waterston have all taken
disgraceful/ungrateful little pokes at Rowling. HBO Max seemed uncertain
whether she deserved a lot of attention at a Harry Potter celebration.
It’s not like she was important to that franchise or anything.
But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner
Bros., which made the Harry Potter films. Zaslav has already made two big,
and hilarious moves: Canceling CNN+, and uncanceling Rowling. Zaslav is
meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the
Wall Street Journal.
That’s news because as the Fantastic Beasts series dwindles into oblivion,
the industry trades have been a little quiet about new Rowling projects
lately. (Lately she popped up in the news when Vladimir Putin complained
that the West was canceling Russia just like it canceled Rowling. Rowling
fired back that she didn’t invade Ukraine).
Presumably, we’ll be getting some new Rowling/Potter content. Hurrah! The
Prisoner of Wokezkaban is free.
Rowling, known for holding such extremist views as “women are a different
thing from men,” was subjected to online harassment from Twitter mobs who
insisted that her reputation be cast into the hellfire flames of Mordor.
[I think you’re getting mixed up with a different franchise —Ed.] Although
most of Rowling’s antagonists appeared to be either spotty 14-year-olds or
adjunct professors of gender studies, AT&T proved that a $100 billion-
dollar corporation can cave quicker than the French army in 1940 and cast
the Cloak of Invisibility over Rowling.
Zaslav, who according to the Journal is such a workaholic that he starts
work at 6 a.m. and is pushing for the Starbucks on the Warners lot to stay
open 24 hours, has been flicking his lightsaber in every direction to cut
costs [Do you even watch these movies? — Ed] and reduce headcount at the
newly-rechristened company. He even dared to ask execs why Warners made
the terrible Clint Eastwood movie “Cry Macho” last year. (Answer:
Eastwood’s previously made non-terrible movies, so we owe him this.) So
his apparent willingness to make big bets on Rowling indicates he thinks
she’s vital to the company’s future growth prospects, Twitter be damned.
Zaslav has also signaled he wants CNN to sound more like a news network
and less like an all-night meeting of the Bard College Young Hysterians
Club. “I think people in America are looking for a place where people
aren’t yelling and giving opinions,” Zaslav told CNBC this week, “and
they’re looking for more news and so that’s what you’ll see from CNN.”
Along with the moves by Ron DeSantis, who refused to be bullied by Woke
Disney; Elon Musk, who has vowed to unshackle speech on Twitter (if he
ever actually buys it); and Netflix, which last week informed its squeaky-
toy coterie of aggrieved activists that Dave Chappelle is more important
than they are and “Netflix may not be the best place for you,” the rise of
Zaslav suggests that the Great Unwokening may already have begun.
The way things are going, it may soon be safe to state true things again.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/hurrah-for-new-hbo-boss-for-uncanceling-j-k-
rowling/
that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of
her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.
You may have noticed that when it came time to engineer a Harry Potter
20th-anniversary reunion on New Year’s Day for HBO Max, the company seemed
to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.
That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
“Fantastic Beasts” star Katherine Waterston have all taken
disgraceful/ungrateful little pokes at Rowling. HBO Max seemed uncertain
whether she deserved a lot of attention at a Harry Potter celebration.
It’s not like she was important to that franchise or anything.
But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner
Bros., which made the Harry Potter films. Zaslav has already made two big,
and hilarious moves: Canceling CNN+, and uncanceling Rowling. Zaslav is
meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the
Wall Street Journal.
That’s news because as the Fantastic Beasts series dwindles into oblivion,
the industry trades have been a little quiet about new Rowling projects
lately. (Lately she popped up in the news when Vladimir Putin complained
that the West was canceling Russia just like it canceled Rowling. Rowling
fired back that she didn’t invade Ukraine).
Presumably, we’ll be getting some new Rowling/Potter content. Hurrah! The
Prisoner of Wokezkaban is free.
Rowling, known for holding such extremist views as “women are a different
thing from men,” was subjected to online harassment from Twitter mobs who
insisted that her reputation be cast into the hellfire flames of Mordor.
[I think you’re getting mixed up with a different franchise —Ed.] Although
most of Rowling’s antagonists appeared to be either spotty 14-year-olds or
adjunct professors of gender studies, AT&T proved that a $100 billion-
dollar corporation can cave quicker than the French army in 1940 and cast
the Cloak of Invisibility over Rowling.
Zaslav, who according to the Journal is such a workaholic that he starts
work at 6 a.m. and is pushing for the Starbucks on the Warners lot to stay
open 24 hours, has been flicking his lightsaber in every direction to cut
costs [Do you even watch these movies? — Ed] and reduce headcount at the
newly-rechristened company. He even dared to ask execs why Warners made
the terrible Clint Eastwood movie “Cry Macho” last year. (Answer:
Eastwood’s previously made non-terrible movies, so we owe him this.) So
his apparent willingness to make big bets on Rowling indicates he thinks
she’s vital to the company’s future growth prospects, Twitter be damned.
Zaslav has also signaled he wants CNN to sound more like a news network
and less like an all-night meeting of the Bard College Young Hysterians
Club. “I think people in America are looking for a place where people
aren’t yelling and giving opinions,” Zaslav told CNBC this week, “and
they’re looking for more news and so that’s what you’ll see from CNN.”
Along with the moves by Ron DeSantis, who refused to be bullied by Woke
Disney; Elon Musk, who has vowed to unshackle speech on Twitter (if he
ever actually buys it); and Netflix, which last week informed its squeaky-
toy coterie of aggrieved activists that Dave Chappelle is more important
than they are and “Netflix may not be the best place for you,” the rise of
Zaslav suggests that the Great Unwokening may already have begun.
The way things are going, it may soon be safe to state true things again.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/hurrah-for-new-hbo-boss-for-uncanceling-j-k-
rowling/
BTR1701
Jul 30, 2022, 2:24:43 PM7/30/22
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On Jul 30, 2022 at 1:08:01 AM PDT, "zinn" <zi...@reno.us> wrote:
> Expelliarmus! And faster than you can say Severus Snape, the dork magic
> that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of
> her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.
>
> You may have noticed that when it came time to engineer a HARRY POTTER
> Expelliarmus! And faster than you can say Severus Snape, the dork magic
> that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of
> her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.
>
> 20th-anniversary reunion on New Year's Day for HBO Max, the company seemed
> to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.
> That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
> FANTASTIC BEASTS star Katherine Waterston have all taken
> to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.
> That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
> disgraceful/ungrateful little pokes at Rowling. HBO Max seemed uncertain
> whether she deserved a lot of attention at a HARRY POTTER celebration.
> It's not like she was important to that franchise or anything.
>
> But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner
> Bros., which made the HARRY POTTER films. Zaslav has already made two big,
>
> But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner
> and hilarious moves: Canceling CNN+, and uncanceling Rowling. Zaslav is
> meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the
> Wall Street Journal.
To the batpoles! We have a social justice violation occurring at Warner Bros.
> meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the
> Wall Street Journal.
We must glue ourselves to something until it stops!
> That's news because as the FANTASTIC BEASTS series dwindles into oblivion,
> the industry trades have been a little quiet about new Rowling projects
> lately. (She popped up in the news when Vladimir Putin complained
> that the West was canceling Russia just like it canceled Rowling. Rowling
> fired back that she didn't invade Ukraine).
>
> Presumably, we'll be getting some new Rowling/Potter content. Hurrah! The
> Prisoner of Wokezkaban is free.
>
> Rowling, known for holding such extremist views as "women are a different
> thing from men", was subjected to online harassment from Twitter mobs who
> fired back that she didn't invade Ukraine).
>
> Presumably, we'll be getting some new Rowling/Potter content. Hurrah! The
> Prisoner of Wokezkaban is free.
>
> Rowling, known for holding such extremist views as "women are a different
> insisted that her reputation be cast into the hellfire flames of Mordor.
> [I think you're getting mixed up with a different franchise-- Ed.] Although
> most of Rowling's antagonists appeared to be either spotty 14-year-olds or
> adjunct professors of gender studies, AT&T proved that a $100 billion-
> dollar corporation can cave quicker than the French army in 1940 and cast
> the Cloak of Invisibility over Rowling.
>
> Zaslav, who according to the Journal is such a workaholic that he starts
> work at 6 a.m. and is pushing for the Starbucks on the Warners lot to stay
> open 24 hours, has been flicking his lightsaber in every direction to cut
> costs [Do you even watch these movies?-- Ed] and reduce headcount at the
> adjunct professors of gender studies, AT&T proved that a $100 billion-
> dollar corporation can cave quicker than the French army in 1940 and cast
> the Cloak of Invisibility over Rowling.
>
> Zaslav, who according to the Journal is such a workaholic that he starts
> work at 6 a.m. and is pushing for the Starbucks on the Warners lot to stay
> open 24 hours, has been flicking his lightsaber in every direction to cut
> newly-rechristened company. He even dared to ask execs why Warners made
> the terrible Clint Eastwood movie CRY MACHO last year. (Answer:
> Eastwood's previously made non-terrible movies, so we owe him this.) So
> his apparent willingness to make big bets on Rowling indicates he thinks
> she's vital to the company's future growth prospects, Twitter be damned.
But... but... whaaaaahhhhh!
> his apparent willingness to make big bets on Rowling indicates he thinks
> she's vital to the company's future growth prospects, Twitter be damned.
> Zaslav has also signaled he wants CNN to sound more like a news network
> and less like an all-night meeting of the Bard College Young Hysterians
> Club. "I think people in America are looking for a place where people
> aren't yelling and giving opinions," Zaslav told CNBC this week, "and
> they're looking for more news and so that's what you'll see from CNN."
trotsky
Jul 30, 2022, 3:27:23 PM7/30/22
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On 7/30/2022 1:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2022 at 1:08:01 AM PDT, "zinn" <zi...@reno.us> wrote:
>
>> Expelliarmus! And faster than you can say Severus Snape, the dork magic
>> that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of
>> her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.
>>
>> You may have noticed that when it came time to engineer a HARRY POTTER
>> 20th-anniversary reunion on New Year's Day for HBO Max, the company seemed
>> to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.
>> That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
>> FANTASTIC BEASTS star Katherine Waterston have all taken
>> disgraceful/ungrateful little pokes at Rowling. HBO Max seemed uncertain
>> whether she deserved a lot of attention at a HARRY POTTER celebration.
>> It's not like she was important to that franchise or anything.
>>
>> But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner
>> Bros., which made the HARRY POTTER films. Zaslav has already made two big,
>> and hilarious moves: Canceling CNN+, and uncanceling Rowling. Zaslav is
>> meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the
>> Wall Street Journal.
>
> To the batpoles!
Holy fuck does that sound gay.
> On Jul 30, 2022 at 1:08:01 AM PDT, "zinn" <zi...@reno.us> wrote:
>
>> Expelliarmus! And faster than you can say Severus Snape, the dork magic
>> that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of
>> her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.
>>
>> You may have noticed that when it came time to engineer a HARRY POTTER
>> 20th-anniversary reunion on New Year's Day for HBO Max, the company seemed
>> to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.
>> That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
>> FANTASTIC BEASTS star Katherine Waterston have all taken
>> disgraceful/ungrateful little pokes at Rowling. HBO Max seemed uncertain
>> whether she deserved a lot of attention at a HARRY POTTER celebration.
>> It's not like she was important to that franchise or anything.
>>
>> But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner
>> Bros., which made the HARRY POTTER films. Zaslav has already made two big,
>> and hilarious moves: Canceling CNN+, and uncanceling Rowling. Zaslav is
>> meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the
>> Wall Street Journal.
>
> To the batpoles!
Louis Epstein
Sep 4, 2022, 11:46:17 PM9/4/22
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In alt.fan.harry-potter BTR1701 <atr...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2022 at 1:08:01 AM PDT, "zinn" <zi...@reno.us> wrote:
>
>> Expelliarmus! And faster than you can say Severus Snape, the dork magic
>> that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of
>> her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.
>>
>> You may have noticed that when it came time to engineer a HARRY POTTER
>> 20th-anniversary reunion on New Year's Day for HBO Max, the company seemed
>> to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.
>> That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
>> FANTASTIC BEASTS star Katherine Waterston have all taken
>> disgraceful/ungrateful little pokes at Rowling. HBO Max seemed uncertain
>> whether she deserved a lot of attention at a HARRY POTTER celebration.
>> It's not like she was important to that franchise or anything.
>>
>> But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner
>> Bros., which made the HARRY POTTER films. Zaslav has already made two big,
>> and hilarious moves: Canceling CNN+, and uncanceling Rowling. Zaslav is
>> meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the
>> Wall Street Journal.
>
> To the batpoles! We have a social justice violation occurring at Warner Bros.
> We must glue ourselves to something until it stops!
Technically,Zaslav runs the new holding company Warner Brothers Discovery,
> On Jul 30, 2022 at 1:08:01 AM PDT, "zinn" <zi...@reno.us> wrote:
>
>> Expelliarmus! And faster than you can say Severus Snape, the dork magic
>> that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of
>> her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.
>>
>> You may have noticed that when it came time to engineer a HARRY POTTER
>> 20th-anniversary reunion on New Year's Day for HBO Max, the company seemed
>> to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.
>> That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
>> FANTASTIC BEASTS star Katherine Waterston have all taken
>> disgraceful/ungrateful little pokes at Rowling. HBO Max seemed uncertain
>> whether she deserved a lot of attention at a HARRY POTTER celebration.
>> It's not like she was important to that franchise or anything.
>>
>> But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner
>> Bros., which made the HARRY POTTER films. Zaslav has already made two big,
>> and hilarious moves: Canceling CNN+, and uncanceling Rowling. Zaslav is
>> meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the
>> Wall Street Journal.
>
> To the batpoles! We have a social justice violation occurring at Warner Bros.
> We must glue ourselves to something until it stops!
in which I received two shares of stock when Warner separated from AT&T
and merged with Discovery;that makes him the boss of the head of Warner
Brothers Entertainment,who is the boss of the head of Warner Brothers
Pictures,which actually makes the films.
At the merger,Ann Sarnoff stepped down as head of Warner Brothers
Entertainment,and shortly thereafter,Toby Emmerich stepped down as head of
Warner Brothers Pictures...two people jointly replaced Emmerich and it's
not clear anyone has yet replaced Sarnoff.
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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