Bitchin Dave's Newsletter - November 18th
Housekeeping: there will be no newsletter next week. Happy Thanksgiving! More housekeeping: I realized I edited out a Disney article last week. Oops. Please enjoy two Disney-related stories this week. Sometimes it's interesting to see the world through other people's eyes. I recently watched a video about the "rise and fall of ESPN." It was interesting and covered all the broad points, talked about how they changed their model from a financial standpoint (moving from cable to streaming), how the studio shows and hosts changed with the times (more discussion panels, and more social-media focus), and how they've paid more to get rights to games. Honestly, I thought it was pretty even in the way they laid it out. However, there were a series of comments attached to the video that explained in MAGA-related terms why ESPN failed ! In summary: They are "woke" (yeah, this was a one-word comment left several times by different people) They went away from j...