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Amid the Hollywood strike, Disney is looking to hire a senior executive to “lead crisis communications response efforts,” as well as other senior communications experts to “retain” and “motivate” employees, according to company job postings reviewed by The Intercept.

One posting offers up to $337,920 for a vice president of public affairs to lead a “communications team to assist senior executives in preparing for media events” and “interviews.” The posting follows a disastrous July 13 interview by CNBC of Disney chief executive Bob Iger, in which he called the actors and writers strikes “very disturbing,” their demands “not realistic,” and coming at “the worst time in the world.”

The interview was widely panned as a catastrophe, with the Hollywood Reporter calling it “infamous” in an article titled “Unpacking Bob Iger’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good PR Week.” The same week, one day prior to the interview, Disney announced that his contract was being extended to 2026, raising his target annual compensation to $31 million. The eye-popping sum drew cynical comparisons to the statistic that only 14 percent of actors represented by the SAG-AFTRA guild earn the minimum $26,470 necessary to qualify for health insurance, per the union’s chief economist.

“We’re unrealistic when he’s making $78,000 a day,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said of Iger during an interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Drescher went on to chide his CNBC interview, remarking: “He stuck his foot in it so bad that you notice they’re not letting any of the other CEOs open their mouths.”

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  • JaymesRS@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    He just came back and took over for Bob Chapek in November. The strike was authorized in April. At this point half of the time since he came back, WGA has been on strike.

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      1 year ago

      For some reason I thought it had been a lot longer