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“Unfortunately, the companies that have the freedom to report on it aren’t willing to take up their constitutional right, and speak truth to power.”
Maybe now they’ve got this solidarity thing going, corporate media could stretch the idea enough to see where solidarity is needed on issues perhaps even more pressing than whether you got your Thor: Ragnorok review before opening night or a day after.
On Tuesday (6/5/12), ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer introduced a news segment: Michelle Obama appeared today with the CEO of our parent company, Disney, because Disney decided to do something historic to help fight childhood obesity and called in the big guns to do it, including a very, very famous mouse. The “historic” […]
With all the recent critical attention to Apple’s manufacturing policies, it was perhaps only a matter of time before the company decided to push back. One way Apple might do this is by granting an “exclusive” to a media outlet that might put out a different kind of story than the one that people have […]
No matter where you live, local TV newscasts tend to be pretty awful: a mash-up of crime, spectacle and celebrity–along with sports and weather. According to an item in the Hollywood Reporter, though, ABC has told its local affiliates not to cover one celebrity in particular: actor Johnny Depp. The actor is doing interviews to […]
Tossing out old papers in preparation for an upcoming office move, I came across what was probably the best hate letter I’ve ever received. It came in response to FAIR’s work on talkshow host Bob Grant–who, after FAIR had documented his bigoted, violent rants and promotion of white supremacy, had been fired by Disney’s ABC, […]
