{"id":475,"date":"2003-12-02T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/12\/the_weak_stuff\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T20:22:49","slug":"the_weak_stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/12\/the_weak_stuff.html","title":{"rendered":"THE WEAK STUFF"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s wrong with this picture? Roy Disney’s resignation from the board of the Walt Disney
\nCompany was big news yesterday. Today, Sharon Waxman, in a follow-up in The New York
\nTimes, reports: “Roy Disney’s parting words to the company his uncle built were harsh, but few
\nresonated more painfully than the charge that the Walt Disney Company has ‘lost its focus, its
\ncreative energy and its heritage.’ ” Her lede ends: “A significant number of Hollywood executives would
\nagree.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A><\/P>
\n

She’s probably right. But she never really substantiates that assertion. How many is
\nsignificant? A handful? Ten? Three dozen? Waxman doesn’t say. She also fails to quote a single
\none of the “significant number” to support her point, unless you count publicity-hungry Harvey
\nWeinstein, co-chairman of Miramax, who’s had troubles with Disney. Waxman does say she spoke
\nto an unnamed studio executive who “once kept a list of departing Disney executives, but stopped
\nwhen the roster topped 100.” <\/P>
\n

And how about this assertion? “Many in the [film] industry questioned the notion of basing
\nmovies, like ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ on theme park rides.” Sounds like a dumb Disney idea to
\nme, too. But who are the many she cites? Just one: Tim Doyle, co-founder of “a leading movie
\nfan Web
\nsite<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.” Maybe Doyle makes movies on the side.<\/P>
\n

This is reporting? From the Times, no less? It’s under-reporting. Waxman, newly hired from
\nThe Washington Post, has been pretty weak before. I don’t know how she got away with it at the
\nPost. Maybe it’s because Hollywood is not a Post priority?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s wrong with this picture? Roy Disney’s resignation from the board of the Walt Disney Company was big news yesterday. Today, Sharon Waxman, in a follow-up in The New York Times, reports: “Roy Disney’s parting words to the company his uncle built were harsh, but few resonated more painfully than the charge that the Walt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}