We’re knee deep in baseball season, the desultory Dog Days of deep summer looming just ahead. Typically about now, sagacious and slightly desperate columnists cast about for theoretical deals that can transform the stinker local team into a contender.
The streaming wars are reaching a similar place. Fifteen months post-Netflix Great Correction, the streaming landscape is in dire need of approaches other than cutting, shutting, laying off, and licensing out. Nowhere is the angst, and the need for transformative ideas, felt more keenly than with Disney, the world’s biggest and best known media company, now stuck in a nasty damned funk.
