Media Outlet / Personality: Disney/ABC

Disney acquired ABC in 1996. The ABC Television Network manages ABC News, ABC Entertainment, ABC Daytime, ABC Sports and ABC Kids in addition to some local radio stations.


Action Alert: Tell ABC: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate: Network says June 24 special will cover 'all sides' (6/22/09)

Media Advisory: International Law Seldom Newsworthy in Gaza War: Israeli justifications often cited uncritically (1/13/09)

Action Alert: ABC's Overpaid Autoworkers (12/5/08)

Action Alert: Media Still Letting Bush Lie on Iraq Inspectors: ABC, WaPo fail to challenge president's misinformation (12/2/08)

Elections/2008 Media Advisory: More Than a Two-Person Race: Corporate media largely ignore other presidential candidates (10/21/08)

Elections/2008 Action Alert: ABC Errs on Obama's Iraq Votes: Echoing McCain line on 'funding for troops' (9/2/08)

Elections/2008 Extra!: Dubious Debates: How media moderators lowered the level of Election ’08 (July/August 2008) By Jacqueline Bacon

Media Advisory: McClellan Confessions Spark Media Denial: Journalists get Iraq wrong all over again as they defend pre-war reporting (5/30/08)

Elections/2008 Action Alert: ABC's Debate Debacle: Trivia and biased questions dominate Democrats’ debate (4/17/08)

Action Alert: Social Security Scaremongering: ABC, Washington Post push well-worn 'crisis' myths (10/19/07)

Economy CounterSpin: Neil deMause on FAIR's poverty study, Alex Koppelman on Lou Dobbs and U.S. Border Patrol criminals (9/7/07)

Extra!: The Poor Will Always Be With Us--Just Not on the TV News: FAIR Study (September/ October 2007) By Neil deMause and Steve Rendall

CounterSpin: Laila al-Arian on 'The Other War,' Ann Toback on broadcast news survey (8/3/07)

Action Alert: Illegal, Yes--But Not Newsworthy: Wiretapping testimony hardly covered (5/22/07)

Action Alert: ABC (Under)counting Iraqi Dead (3/21/07)

Media Advisory: Won't Get Fooled Again?: NYT, networks offer scant skepticism on Iran claims (2/2/07)

Action Alert: Staying Inside the Beltway: Networks' Sunday shows ignore public opposition to war (1/29/07)

Extra!: A Note of Bias: ABC’s Mark Halperin calls for a purge of newsrooms (January/February 2007) By Jim Naureckas

Media Advisory: Withdrawing From Debate on Iraq: Public's view too 'extreme' for media discussion (12/4/06)

Media Advisory: Midterms and the Media: Was the press fair to voters? (11/6/06)

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See also:

Disney
World News Tonight
Nightline
John Stossel
ABC Radio Networks
This Week

Contact:

ABC News
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New York, NY 10023

Phone: (212) 456-7777
Fax: (212) 456-4292
Email: netaudr@abc.com

Links:

What does Disney own?, from CJR.

Walt Disney Company's Board of Directors.

Disney home page

Disney Annual Reports

ABC News

Radio Rat Poison: The dark side of Disney, by Daniel Zoll (SFBG.com, 9/20/00).

Books:

Networks of Power: Corporate TV's Threat to Democracy, by Dennis W. Mazzaco (South End Press, 1994).

By Invitation Only: How the Media Limit Public Debate, by David Croteau and William Hoynes (Common Courage, 1994).