{"id":10231,"date":"2023-03-20T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10231"},"modified":"2023-03-20T19:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:39:45","slug":"desantis-disney-drama-turns-culture-war-into-political-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10231","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis&#8217; Disney Drama Turns Culture War Into Political Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;DeSantis argues that this is a pro-transparency change that will ensure Disney cannot do whatever it pleases without some semblance of state oversight. It could also be, as DeSantis critics like Jonathan Chait&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2023\/03\/desantis-promises-florida-will-control-disney-content.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have argued<\/a>, a move that will allow DeSantis to exert direct pressure over Disney&#8217;s content in the future. The board members won&#8217;t be able to write or reject plot arcs in future Disney films, of course, but an unhappy board could cause problems for the company&#8217;s development plans in and around its Florida theme parks.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;In the old days, conservatives would have viewed unelected officials being appointed to oversee corporate decisions as a worrying intrusion of state power into private affairs. DeSantis has figured out how to get them to cheer for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EAUMwOW7OB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/03\/01\/desantis-disney-drama-turns-culture-war-into-political-gains\/\">DeSantis&#8217; Disney Drama Turns Culture War Into Political Gains<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;DeSantis&#039; Disney Drama Turns Culture War Into Political Gains&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/03\/01\/desantis-disney-drama-turns-culture-war-into-political-gains\/embed\/#?secret=j2lKnIBQSp#?secret=EAUMwOW7OB\" data-secret=\"EAUMwOW7OB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;DeSantis argues that this is a pro-transparency change that will ensure Disney cannot do whatever it pleases without some semblance of state oversight. It could also be, as DeSantis critics like Jonathan Chait have argued, a move that will allow DeSantis to exert direct pressure over Disney&#8217;s content in the future. The board members won&#8217;t be able to write or reject plot arcs in future Disney films, of course, but an unhappy board could cause problems for the company&#8217;s development plans in and around its Florida theme parks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the old days, conservatives would have viewed unelected officials being appointed to oversee corporate decisions as a worrying intrusion of state power into private affairs. DeSantis has figured out how to get them to cheer for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[423,202,203,1281,1176],"class_list":["post-10231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-culture","tag-culture-war","tag-desantis","tag-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10232,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions\/10232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}