[QUOTE]Amid a growing backlash, the Walt Disney Company on Tuesday reversed its decision to bar The Los Angeles Times from press screenings of its movies following an investigation by the newspaper into the media giant’s business dealings in Anaheim.
“We’ve had productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at The Los Angeles Times regarding our specific concerns, and as a result, we’ve agreed to restore access to advance screenings for their film critics,” Disney said in a statement.
Disney’s change of course came after a number of news outlets, including The New York Times and the A.V. Club, said they were boycotting advance screenings of Disney films in solidarity.
On Tuesday, members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics denounced Disney’s blackout of The Los Angeles Times. [B]Each group voted to disqualify Disney’s movies from year-end award consideration unless the blackout was “publicly rescinded.”[/B][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]In explaining this particular blackout, Disney cited a Los Angeles Times investigation that was published in September about the company’s business ties to Anaheim, Calif., where its popular Disneyland and California Adventure theme parks are.
The two-part investigative series detailed the “subsidies, incentives, rebates and protections from future taxes” that Disney had secured from the city, as well as the company’s impact on local elections.
“We regularly work with news organizations around the world that we don’t always agree with, but in this instance the L.A. Times showed a complete disregard for basic journalistic standards,” Disney said in a statement last week.
Disney’s decision to block Los Angeles Times journalists from advance screenings inadvertently drew national attention to the articles on the company’s dealings with Anaheim. It also stirred outrage and scrutiny.
The Los Angeles Times responded at the time by saying that Disney had not asked for any corrections. Since then, it has not covered the outcry from critics and news organizations that followed the blackout.[/QUOTE]
[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/business/disney-la-times.html"]
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[URL="http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-disney-anaheim-deals/"]The original LA Times expose
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Streisand Effect once again goes ignored in the face of corporate damage control
it's only because they were about to be disqualified from several critic awards because of their lat ban that they decided to backpedal.
[QUOTE=usaokay;52867041]Man, the Disney execs are draconian.[/QUOTE]
it's alarming how much of a cognitive dissonance there is between business and creative sides of the company. this isn't new either, as much as I've looked into it Disney corporate has always been like this
[QUOTE=usaokay;52867094]I've lived pretty close to Anaheim and whenever I go there, the streets don't seem up to par when you consider how much money Disneyland gets per day. Glad the article shed some light as to why most of Anaheim is just shitty.
Pretty much Disney is just full of shitty execs all around.[/QUOTE]
But...but...Pixar Pier!!! What kind of person would want a nicely themed boardwalk that took a second try to get it right when you can just shove characters into it.
Or their inability to work with businesses for the eastern gateway and basically saying "Screw it, west gateway is good to go instead".
Don't even get me started with Epcot.
My salt levels are increasing with the Parks and Resorts division. The other divisions are making me slowly feel the same.
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