I hate to say it @mawnck but your expectations of the media is a little on the high side. The majority of all news is editorialized. The media has an audience that they cater to, and the editors push what their audience wants to hear. I would give this much more credibility if multiple media agencies were affected by this, and were reporting on the inadequacies of Disney media management. I'm not saying/crying "fake news"...I simply stating this is just one side of the coin, and in order to get the full story you have to flip that coin before you get all upset. Facts are being reported, but quotes when taken out of context can be easily flipped and editorialized.
The thing I noticed most in that article is that the other media said they would not go to the advance screenings or write about them pre-release. They don't say that they won't ever write about the movies...they just won't help Disney hype up what they have going on by talking their stuff up. I don't see what the big deal is...
Answered here, better than I could: Disney Is Blacklisting Los Angeles Times Critics Because They Don’t Like Their Business Coverage We are well on our way to a world in which multimillionaires control even the press outlets they don’t own outright, rewarding journalists for turning a blind eye to the various schemes they cook up and punishing those who bring them negative attention. Disney (and CEO Bob Iger, who reportedly has presidential ambitions) are sending up a trial balloon. Throw some darts.
You just magnified my earlier statement about taking one part of an article/quote to make YOUR editorial stand. There are other facts stated, but you chose to highlight what bolsters your argument. It doesn't matter what I (or anybody else) say on this topic anymore because your panties are so twisted up in a bunch that you aren't hearing what others are trying to say. I appreciate your stance, but I don't agree...and I'll just leave it at that.
They're saying that it's OK for a giant media conglomerate to blacklist a newspaper over their (factually undisputed) news coverage. Right?
They are not being blacklisted from reviewing the movies. Disney is not allowing them all of the goodies that media representatives get from advanced screening events.
They are being blacklisted from reviewing the movies in advance, when it actually matters in terms of clicks and revenue and stuff.
According to the tweet in one of the articles you posted the Disney representative stated the their advance screenings come with encouragement to not cover their films until they are released. That makes advance screenings not necessary in my book. Advance screenings are a privilege and not required for media.
So, they're po'd because they feel their chances of profiting off of Disney are lessened. They don't think it's fair. They slap Disney in the face with their articles and then can't understand why Disney doesn't turn the other cheek? Then, they play the part of the victim. It's just too familiar these days. Yeah....I guess I'm still on Disney's side with this one. I would have reacted the same way. Final word. Take care.
Disney Lifts Los Angeles Times Media Ban Amid Growing Backlash “We’ve had productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at The Los Angeles Times regarding our specific concerns, and as a result, we’ve agreed to restore access to advance screenings for their film critics,” Disney said in a statement given to the New York Times. (snip) Disney’s statement attempts to declare victory, but unless the L.A. Times has come under “newly installed leadership” since yesterday morning, it seems clear that the mounting pressure, along with the surge in the interest whose existence so displeased them in the first place, was simply too much to bear.
From Darkbeer1: The new owners of the LA Times, hired in October, and started work November 1st, http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lewis-dvorkin-editor-20171009-story.html >>On Monday, D’Vorkin, 65, was named editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times. He plans to officially join Los Angeles Times Media Group on Nov. 1. Levinsohn also named Rosen, his deputy, as president of the Los Angeles Times Media Group.<< http://www.latimes.com/about/lat-lewis-dvorkin-story.html >>Lewis D’Vorkin was named editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times in October 2017. D’Vorkin is a seasoned journalist and media pioneer with 40 years of experience in both traditional and new media platforms. Prior to joining The Times, he served as chief product officer at Forbes, leading the editorial, product and technology teams for Forbes Media and its related brands. At Forbes he spearheaded a unique content-creation model and developed a worldwide publishing platform for distributed authorship. He also introduced the news industry’s leading native advertising solution (BrandVoice) and supervised the creation of the New Newsroom, which integrates editorial, data analysis, product development, engineering and social distribution to foster real-time connections between readers, content creators and marketers. D’Vorkin has years of journalism experience as the Page One editor of the Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at Newsweek, an editor at the New York Times for the newspaper’s daily and Sunday editions and executive editor of Forbes from December 1996 to April 2000.<< LA Times gets a top editor with nothing but questions >>That's not necessarily the plan for the Los Angeles Times. But Tronc watcher Ken Doctor calls D'Vorkin an out of the box hire whose Nov. 1 arrival will reset the strategy for the LA Times and Tronc itself once again.<< http://www.laweekly.com/news/who-is...tor-in-chief-of-the-los-angeles-times-8736821 >> If D'Vorkin tries to do at the Times what he did at Forbes, "It’s going to be a completely different newspaper," Mele says. "On the other hand, here's a guy who’s tried different things. I am profoundly in favor of trying new things in the daily news industry. So yes, it’s a shakeup. It’s an unusual thing. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so." Or as D'Vorkin himself once said: "If you want to keep digging the same hole and not finding any oil, go for it. What we're trying to do is build a sustainable model."<<
Darkbeer1: And the firings from August... http://www.chicagobusiness.com/arti...nted-rich-patron-for-the-once-great-l-a-times >>What brings this to mind was the news on Monday that Tronc had fired four top editors, including Davan Maharaj, who was serving as both publisher and editor-in-chief. Maharaj was replaced with a new publisher, Ross Levinsohn, and an interim editor, Jim Kirk, former publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times. Levinsohn is the Times's eighth publisher since Tronc bought the paper in 2000 and its fourth in the last two years. Kirk, meanwhile, had joined Tronc six days earlier as a senior vice president for strategic initiatives when he was handed the reins at the L.A. Times. Not exactly stability-inducing.<<
