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: The Media & Mumia: Were ABC and Vanity Fair Taken for a Ride? (8/11/99)

Action Alert: A Tale of Two "Entertainment Shows": ABC Hires Matt Drudge, Raises Questions (7/16/99)

Action Alert: Networks Need to Be Skeptical of Both Sides:: Reporters Repeated NATO Falsehoods on Refugee Bombing (5/21/99)

Extra!: Sam Donaldson: Hanging Judge (Update February 1999)

Action Alert: ABC's Abu-Jamal Segment Airs Tonight: Sam Donaldson calls for inmate's execution, calls supporters ignorant (12/9/98)

Extra!: Exploding ABC's Unabomber Hoax (Update June 1996)

Extra!: Media Monopoly: Long History, Short Memories: ABC Was Born Out of Fear of Media Consolidation (November/December 1995) By Jim Naureckas

Extra!: Are Disabled Children Ripping You Off--Or Did PrimeTime Live Tell a Big Fib? (May/June 1995) By Jim Naureckas

Extra!: Koppel Covers for Limbaugh's Rumor-Mongering (July/August 1994)

Extra!: ABC's Junk Science: Victor Neufeld's Anti-Environmental Spin Continues (Update June 1994) By Karl Grossman

Extra!: A Nuclear Conflict of Interest?: 20/20 Blurs the Lines (January/February 1994) By Karl Grossman

Economy Extra!: News Flash: Poor Mothers on Crime Spree! (November/December 1993) By Veena Cabreros-Sud

Extra!: Gulf War Coverage: The Worst Censorship Was at Home (Special Gulf War Issue 1991) By Jim Naureckas

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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).