Bob Iger Should Give John Stewart a Conkrite Audience and a Will McAvoy Mission.
I’ve been a fan of Bob Iger and admire his communication style. The Eisner era was full of troubled waters. When Bob Iger took the rudder, he steadied the pirate ship.
Now that he is back at Disney, after a short Chapek hiatus, it is now also clear he is not going to run for president of the United States. Many have suggested he would have been a great candidate. Instead, he is going to sunset at the happiest place on earth, (in a parallel universe from the Desantis’ Florida.)
The Disney conglomerate includes ABC and ABC news. So, if Bob Iger isn’t running for president, he does still have an opportunity to make a big impact on the US democracy by fixing news.
To do so, he will need to be a bit more daring than World News with David Muir. Those shows appear heavily sanitized, and then run one more time through a bleach bath for good measure. The news needs to be a bit more hard hitting and critical.
And I know just the person who Bob should be hiring - assuming he is willing to rock the boat a bit, and not be as concerned about the squeaky clean Disney image. John Stewart.
This video might as well been a job interview. It is part of a bigger Apple TV+ segment on The News is broken. John Stewart clearly has evolved from the Comedy Central jokester to a hard hitting journalist.
Let’s give John Stewart a bigger forum, a Conkrite audience, and a Will McAvoy mission.
Make no mistake. This will not be a profitable endeavor. Yet, with a few good truly altruistic donors, it will be a dent in democracy mission. It will have a bigger impact on the US and the world than any presidential run.
