Bob Iger, In CNN+ Interview With Chris Wallace, Makes The Case For Why CEOs Should Weigh In On ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill And Other Issues: “It’s About Right And Wrong”

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One of Chris Wallace’s first guests on his new CNN+ series is former Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, who makes the case for why corporate leaders should wade into major issues like climate change, immigration and, most recently, Florida’s so-called ‘don’t say gay’ bill.“A lot of these issues are not necessarily political,” Iger said in the interview, which will stream this week. “It’s about right and wrong.

So I happened to feel, and I tweeted an opinion about the ‘don’t say gay’ bill in Florida. To me, it wasn’t about politics. It is about what is right and what is wrong, and that just seemed wrong.

It seemed potentially harmful to kids.”Disney, now led by Iger’s successor Bob Chapek, this week issued a statement condemning the Florida legislation, which was signed into law by Gov.

Ron DeSantis. But Chapek was initially reluctant to take a public side on the legislation, saying that corporate statements often are “weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame.” But the company’s public silence triggered a backlash, Chapek went public with the company’s opposition and acknowledged that  “our original approach, no matter how well intentioned, didn’t quite get the job done.”In the interview with Wallace, Iger talked of going public on issues like climate change and immigration. “I had to contend with this a lot, and the filter that I used to determine whether we should or should not weigh in considered a few factors.