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.


Extra!: Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates: The corporate ties between insurers and media companies (August 2009) By Kate Murphy

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)

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See also:

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

Contact:

ABC News
47 West 66th Street
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).