doing? is there anything that lawmakers or regulators can do? it s not just the market. a lot of these newspapers have their own websites and they have adapted to that and they show their local news that way. what s really killed them is the ad revenue. i just gave you that figure 12 years from 37 to 9, while in just three months of this year last year google came out with their numbers, $61 billion they raked in. so a lot of it is how much these news organizations, not just newspapers, are getting paid for their content. so all we re doing is saying big, small, people should be able to negotiate with these platforms together so you don t have some small newspaper in lanes borrow, minnesota, trying to do it by themselves. that s why you see the gamut from myself to senator kennedy who is a conservative republican from louisiana supporting this bill, to ken buck in the house, a conservative from colorado.
office, meaning the abilities to release movies in china? it s both. think about it this way. if you were making a movie these days, one of these model superhero movies that cost upward of $200 million to produce, you need china to turn a profit very often. to get into chinese movie theaters, you need to have approval by chinese communist censors. that means they re screening every movie, large or small, themes they don t like, tibet or taiwan, geographic tensions like that. i did tell in my book how a james bond movie had to cut a scene in which 007 had to cut a security guard because it made the country look weak. every blockbuster produced in the last year or so has become a challenge for china. remarkable. what surprised you most in
narrative in a way that s quite significant because based on the way things are right now, you know, we are looking at cuomo and zucker and these two situations, but they are not equivant, right? so there are reports that cuomo brought this up, there s speculation that he brought it up in his fight to get this $18 million saying essentially, wait a minute, why am i being fired for this inappropriate relationship when my boss is carrying on an inappropriate relationship of his own? it s important to keep in mind the distinction between the two cases. in cuomo s case he was fired for reportedly giving advice and counsel to a sitting governor in the midst of a political scandal which would be a clear and major breach of not only journalistic ethics but also company policy. in zucker s case he stepped down because he admitted to not disclosing the romantic relationship. it wasn t the relationship that was the problem, it was the failure to disclose it. and that s a very important distincti
widely reported that this was considered an open secret, this relationship. so why not just disclose it? right? i mean, jeff zucker is considered to be one of the most savvy media executives around, he is a political animal. why not he would have been able to acknowledge it and to be able to move on in some way, maybe making some adjustments in terms of responsibilities and reporting lines, and the other piece of this is what about where was warner media in all of this if it truly was an open secret, why didn t they do something before? and, brian, the one thing that i really want to point out here is that there are plenty plenty of very high profile media couples who have managed to navigate this very, very successfully. very often it starts with a lot of rumors and eye rolling and, you know, office chatter, but then you manage to navigate it successfully. think about bob iger at disney
conversation, her clips drive web traffic. we are waiting to see what happens next week. do the viewers go somewhere else is the question. abc, whoopi goldberg suspended this week. abc news product, by the way, suspended because of her ignorant comments about the holocaust. david, a lot of reaction on social media has been pro whoopee saying, hey, she apologized. she seemed to mean it. so why is she on the bench for two weeks? well, you know, i think this is a case of misinformation rather than disinformation. yes. this is something where someone was ignorant. but there s no excuse for whoopi goldberg not to be better informed. i mean, in one way there was a washington post editorial that said this shows the need for a kind of critical race theory discussion in schools and i agree with that. but there s no reason for her not to be better informed about jewish identity in this nation and historicly. but it is misinformation. it s not like the republican party calling the horro