The moral ambiguity of the Walt Disney Company
Disney. The world-famous animation studio and purveyor of family entertainment, known for portraying the Disney brand as moral, upstanding, and rich with tradition.
But of course the Walt Disney Company is amoral and not quite upstanding. Large corporations in general are like this, but with Disney it's especially known because of the contrast with the "we're your friends, trust us" image.
How do you deal with the doublethink?
But of course the Walt Disney Company is amoral and not quite upstanding. Large corporations in general are like this, but with Disney it's especially known because of the contrast with the "we're your friends, trust us" image.
How do you deal with the doublethink?
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(nerds don't realize though that the matter of a conglomerate buying Marvel was when, not if; Lucasfilm being sold when it was legit came out of nowhere though)
It's weird to see that in hindsight
that and it being 2009
Like I get the zombie funny animal thing (and honestly it's kind of amusing imagining House of Mouse!Mickey and pals shambling forward hunched over and panting) but corpses? Are we talking, like, having recordings of Walt supplying Mickey's voice in "Get a Horse!"?
ESPN is their ATM, yeah, but it's not very "Disney" and they transparently don't care for ABC at all (ironic, considering that Iger came to Disney when they purchased Capital Cities/ABC). They must have some ulterior motive for continuing to hold onto it...
As for companies that are bigger than Disney now: Apple and Google, though I don't think either of them want to buy it (or as investment writers would call it, make a content play)
amusingly now that "media convergence" is actually happening (albeit not in the "they're all the same thing" way), the notion of a far-flung, diverse media conglomerate is pretty well dead and buried
Big Media was a decade or two too early to it, but them not abiding by it now might be for the best...
And Bob Iger does shit like buy Fox and shut down Fox News and replace failed Fox shows with reruns of 101 Dalmatians: The Series. But sometimes I feel like I'm violating Disney by turning it into a frivolous company that tosses the Fox network around like it's a rag doll.