Disney Reason For Censorship Is BS

Disney is one of the largest distributors of RW media. They say they don't want to release "Fahrenheit 911" during an election year because it is too political.

Yet almost all of their radio stations broadcast Limbaugh and Hannity.

Eisner's Fantasyland Excuse for Censorship

NEW YORK - May 7 - On the television network that his company owns, Disney CEO Michael Eisner dismissed the idea that forbidding Disney subsidiary Miramax to distribute a controversial new documentary by Michael Moore was a form of censorship. "We informed both the agency that represented the film and all of our companies that we just didn't want to be in the middle of a politically-oriented film during an election year," he told ABC World News Tonight (5/5/04), referring to Moore's Fahrenheit 911, which examines the connections between the Bush family and the House of Saud that rules Saudi Arabia.

On its face, Eisner's statement will have a chilling effect. A major movie studio with an announced policy of only releasing apolitical films, in an election year or any other year, will discourage filmmakers from tackling important themes and impoverish the American political debate. (That Moore and Miramax were given advance warning of this policy hardly mitigates its censorious impact.)

But Eisner's statement cannot be taken at face value, because Disney, through its various subsidiaries, is one of the largest distributors of political, often highly partisan media content in the country-- virtually all of it right-wing. Consider:

* Almost all of Disney's major talk radio stations-- WABC in New York, WMAL in D.C., WLS in Chicago, WBAP in Dallas/Ft. Worth and KSFO in San Francisco-- broadcast Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Indeed, WABC is considered the home station for both of these shows, which promote an unremitting Republican political agenda. (Disney's KABC in L.A. carries Hannity, but has Bill O'Reilly instead of Limbaugh.) Disney's news/talk stations are dominated by a variety of other partisan Republican hosts, both local and national, including Laura Ingraham, Larry Elder and Matt Drudge.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0507-08.htm

and no other Media Companies!

Until they start publishing MORE of the very disturbing facts about 9-11 that is.

They made a good start today -

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/national/07TAPE.html?th

now they should follow up and do a complete investigation into how the top levels of both the CIA and FBI protected the alleged hijackers as they flitted about the country.

http://longislandpress.com/v02/i08040226/news_02.asp

the right has been bashing and boycotting disney. thye say they are conditioning the young kids with gaydom. they point the finger at disney for the increase of gays. wouldnt know that if you are right or have a brother who is right and been yelling this for a decade, lol lool

i can see disney not wanting to touch.

which is cool enough,. plenty of distributors, shows repression of speech for left and free publicity

and theme parks.

Engineered reality for the totally immature.