The Economy

The covid-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history

 

The airlines just told 32,000 people they’re on furlough.

United And American Airlines Tell 32,000 Employees They're Now On Furlough

 

this is five weeks ago

BREAKING: The Walt Disney Company Restoring Salaries of Senior Executives to Pre-COVID Levels - WDW News Today

and this is the day before yesterday

Disney to lay off 28,000 employees as coronavirus slams its theme park business

 

Job creators!!!

 

If you wanted to buy a satellite TV provider at fire sale rates, you may get that opportunity soon.

AT&T offloading DirecTV could be a “fire sale” as company weighs low bids

My guess is that somehow it ends up merging with Dish.

 

Well, they weren't kidding about how short their content was....

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman's Quibi Shuts Down

 

Good thing Meg will continue to fail her way up. Next stop: Biden's cabinet.

 

I'm kind of surprised it even lasted 7 months. On the plus side, hopefully Hulu or Netflix can acquire the library - there's some good stuff there. Mapleworth Murders, a spoof of Murder She Wrote by Paula Pell, gave me quite a few chuckles.

 

Never understood the "why" behind it. Would have made much more sense for an existing streamer to provide a line of "content" for quick hits.

 

I thought the concept was more that they shot it for vertical screens than necessarily the program length.

 

Somebody paid a billion dollars to turn an IPhone 45 degrees.

Amazing times we’re in.

 

The Strand Bookstore in big trouble. My favorite place in the city.