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.


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

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

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

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)

CounterSpin: Sheldon Rampton on The Path to 9/11, Wayne Barrett on Giuliani and 9/11 (9/8/06)

Extra!: Stossel’s "Stupid" Schools: A beginner’s course in deceptive reporting (May/June 2006) By Peter Hart and Janine Jackson

Activism Update: Brian Ross "Completely Aware" of WMD Context: So why weren't ABC viewers allowed to know? (3/3/06)

Extra!: Media Lick the Hand That Feeds Them: Does Wal-Mart’s money buy more than ads? (November/December 2005) By Peter Hart and Janine Jackson

Action Alert: ABC's Antiwar "Reality Check": World News Tonight minimizes support for withdrawal (9/1/05)

Action Alert: ABC's One-Sided Wal-Mart Report: Does a big advertiser get special treatment? (8/10/05)

Action Alert: Network Viewers Still in the Dark on "Smoking Gun Memo": Print media continue to downplay story (5/20/05)

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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).