In an interview with NPR, Barry Diller, chairman of IAC, called the movie business dead. Here, he walks to a session of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Idaho on Wednesday.
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Show biz genius Barry Diller knows everything there is to know about the ‘entertainment’ industry.


Barry Diller Headed 2 Hollywood Studios. He Now Says The Movie Business Is Dead
July 8, 20211:55 PM ET
David Gura

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/10140...siness-is-dead

Diller knows so much he knows better than to remind the suckers about tax dollar funding:


Take every form of government funding away from the entertainment industry; including TV’s tax deductible advertising dollars. That includes subsidies paid to Public Television, and Public Radio. My suggestion will not amount to censorship, but it will hamper attempts by social engineers to micro manage every facet of American life with the help of propaganda tax dollars.

Just to stress the point one more time: I am not advocating censorship, I am talking about funding. Let show folk say anything they want to say —— just do not force everybody to pay for it.

Finally, show folk are determined to label their efforts an art form. Having that definition accepted is essential whenever “artists” descend on Washington trying to justify their spot at the trough. Everyone knows about the “show” in show business, but how many people know about the business?

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Bottom line: Making movies is a dying industry with or without tax dollars.

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