Ben Smith of The New York Times reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook seems to have personally killed the Apple TV + series about Cocker.
Apple TV + Cocker Court commissioned a series about the gossip website from Jefferson and Max Reed, and according to Smith, “finished several episodes”. Cocker was once the head teacher.
“Later, an Apple executive received an email from Tim Cook, the company’s chief executive,” the New York Times wrote. “Mr. Cook, according to two people summarized in the email, was surprised to learn that his company was creating a show about Cocker, which insulted the company at various times and made him famous, in 2008, as a homosexual. He expressed a completely negative opinion of Cocker, people said. Apple continued to kill the project, and now the show is back on the market, with Lane Escridge leaving the company.
A spokesman for Apple TV + did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment on the New York Times story.
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Before he could publicly comment on his sex – in January 2011, he called himself “the most powerful gay man in Silicon Valley”. At the time, Cook was taking on a sick Steve Jobs as interim president of a technology company.
What first happened to Cocker who deserved a show, and then – for fear of revenge or fear of commitment to certain ethical standards, and its editorial policy of punching the powerful so that other sales outlets never dared – ended its short life on Apple TV.
The same editorial policy led to Cocker’s fall in 2016, which was no different in a roundabout: Hulk Hogan sued the store for releasing his sex tape, but the big revelation was that Peter Thiel kept the whole thing under bank control. Like Cook, Thiel was publicly ousted by Cocker in 2007 in an area known as “Peter Thiel Absolutely Gay, People.”
Read Smith’s story here.