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.


Press Release: Right and Early: Sunday Morning Shows Are GOP TV (4/18/12)

Extra!: Right and Early: Sunday morning shows are GOP TV (April 2012) By Peter Hart

Action Alert: ABC's Iran Propaganda: Alarmist reporting on 'terrorist' threat (2/2/12)

Action Alert: What if the Tea Party Occupied Wall Street?: Corporate media skip anti-corporate protests (9/23/11)

Extra!: A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News: Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement (July 2011) By Peter Hart

Extra!: ABC's 'Made in America' a Shoddy Product: Holding consumers, not corporations, responsible for missing jobs (April 2011) By Janine Jackson

Action Alert: ABC's 'Made in America' Hypocrisy: Focusing on consumers, not corporations like Disney (3/2/11)

Action Alert: ABC's Broken Tax 'Factcheck': World News bolsters Republican myths (9/13/10)

Media Advisory: Checking ABC's Factcheck: Scrutiny of This Week better in theory than practice (5/4/10)

Extra!: Don’t Ask Gays About Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Debate on military policy excludes those most affected (May 2010) By Julie Hollar

Extra!: ‘America Was Safer Under Bush’: Journalists accept GOP’s screwy terrorism scorecard (March 2010) By Steve Rendall

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)

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

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)

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)

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See also:

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

Contact:

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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).