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   Expelliarmus! And faster than you can say Severus Snape, the dork magic   
   that is wokeness has been neutralized. J.K. Rowling is being let out of   
   her PC jail cell by the new chief of Warner Bros. Discovery.   
      
   You may have noticed that when it came time to engineer a Harry Potter   
   20th-anniversary reunion on New Year’s Day for HBO Max, the company seemed   
   to treat Rowling like a muggle. She appeared only in archival footage.   
   That was strange, but then again, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and   
   “Fantastic Beasts” star Katherine Waterston have all taken   
   disgraceful/ungrateful little pokes at Rowling. HBO Max seemed uncertain   
   whether she deserved a lot of attention at a Harry Potter celebration.   
   It’s not like she was important to that franchise or anything.   
      
   But this spring a new headmaster, David Zaslav, came in to run Warner   
   Bros., which made the Harry Potter films. Zaslav has already made two big,   
   and hilarious moves: Canceling CNN+, and uncanceling Rowling. Zaslav is   
   meeting with Rowling to discuss new Harry Potter projects, reports the   
   Wall Street Journal.   
      
   That’s news because as the Fantastic Beasts series dwindles into oblivion,   
   the industry trades have been a little quiet about new Rowling projects   
   lately. (Lately she popped up in the news when Vladimir Putin complained   
   that the West was canceling Russia just like it canceled Rowling. Rowling   
   fired back that she didn’t invade Ukraine).   
      
   Presumably, we’ll be getting some new Rowling/Potter content. Hurrah! The   
   Prisoner of Wokezkaban is free.   
      
   Rowling, known for holding such extremist views as “women are a different   
   thing from men,” was subjected to online harassment from Twitter mobs who   
   insisted that her reputation be cast into the hellfire flames of Mordor.   
   [I think you’re getting mixed up with a different franchise —Ed.] Although   
   most of Rowling’s antagonists appeared to be either spotty 14-year-olds or   
   adjunct professors of gender studies, AT&T proved that a $100 billion-   
   dollar corporation can cave quicker than the French army in 1940 and cast   
   the Cloak of Invisibility over Rowling.   
      
   Zaslav, who according to the Journal is such a workaholic that he starts   
   work at 6 a.m. and is pushing for the Starbucks on the Warners lot to stay   
   open 24 hours, has been flicking his lightsaber in every direction to cut   
   costs [Do you even watch these movies? — Ed] and reduce headcount at the   
   newly-rechristened company. He even dared to ask execs why Warners made   
   the terrible Clint Eastwood movie “Cry Macho” last year. (Answer:   
   Eastwood’s previously made non-terrible movies, so we owe him this.) So   
   his apparent willingness to make big bets on Rowling indicates he thinks   
   she’s vital to the company’s future growth prospects, Twitter be damned.   
      
   Zaslav has also signaled he wants CNN to sound more like a news network   
   and less like an all-night meeting of the Bard College Young Hysterians   
   Club. “I think people in America are looking for a place where people   
   aren’t yelling and giving opinions,” Zaslav told CNBC this week, “and   
   they’re looking for more news and so that’s what you’ll see from CNN.”   
      
   Along with the moves by Ron DeSantis, who refused to be bullied by Woke   
   Disney; Elon Musk, who has vowed to unshackle speech on Twitter (if he   
   ever actually buys it); and Netflix, which last week informed its squeaky-   
   toy coterie of aggrieved activists that Dave Chappelle is more important   
   than they are and “Netflix may not be the best place for you,” the rise of   
   Zaslav suggests that the Great Unwokening may already have begun.   
      
   The way things are going, it may soon be safe to state true things again.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/hurrah-for-new-hbo-boss-for-uncanceling-j-k-   
   rowling/   
      
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