# Is Disney committing corporate suicide?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-disney-committing-corporate-suicide/226986>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 1, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-disney-committing-corporate-suicide/226986 "2004-02-01T02:49:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-disney-committing-corporate-suicide/226986/62 "2004-02-11T18:35:24Z")

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Um, that’s Comcast offering money to Disney, not the other way around. Kinda worded that clumsily, didn’t I?

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-disney-committing-corporate-suicide/226986/63 "2004-02-11T22:34:58Z")

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The strategic business judgment of Disney combined with the customer friendliness of the biggest cable company in the U.S.

What could go wrong?

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-disney-committing-corporate-suicide/226986/64 "2004-02-11T22:37:32Z")

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> [@kunilou](#):
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> The strategic business judgment of Disney combined with the customer friendliness of the biggest cable company in the U.S.
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> What could go wrong?

Hehe…I can just see the cinematic jumpcut:

Orlando in smoking ruins, the mob of enraged citizens still scurrying about, carrying torches and pitchforks, with Mickey’s head on a pike at the gates to the Happiest Place on Earth…

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-disney-committing-corporate-suicide/226986/65 "2004-02-12T00:17:56Z")

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That sounds like a _Dilbert_ episode there, **jayjay**.

It was an unsolicited letter from Comcast to Disney. The Disney board will meet and discuss and give their answer in due course.

Then, we’ll see if Comcast can “bear hug” them the way they did AT&T.

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