MEDIA & CULTURE

WHO CONTROLS THE MEDIA?

CAN WE TRUST THE MEDIA?

IS THE MEDIA BIAS FREE?

POWER!

MEDIA & DEMOCRACY

DISNEY & COMPANYWalt Disney – or more specifically Disney Media Networks – controls a staggering amount of media

outlets.[12] In the field of motion pictures, they own Walt Disney Pictures (which includes Pixar Animation

Studios), Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures. They then distribute these films through Walt

Disney Studios Home Entertainment while distributing soundtracks and original music under Walt Disney

Records and Hollywood Records.

They also own the entire ABC Television Network (which includes ABC Daytime, ABC Entertainment

Group and ABC News), the Disney Channel, ABC Family, SOAPnet, 80% of ESPN (along with ESPN2,

ESPN Classic, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, ESPNU, ESPN HD and ESPN2 HD, ESPN Regional Television,

ESPN International, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Enterprises, ESPN Zones,

ESPN360, ESPN Mobile Properties, ESPN On Demand, ESPN Interactive and ESPN PPV) and television

distribution divisions of Disney-ABC Domestic Television and Disney-ABC ESPN Television.

Walt Disney also owns large shares of A&E Television Networks and Lifetime Entertainment Services [12],

while ABC Television Network boasts over 200 affiliated stations which together reach 99% of American

household televisions, and that isn’t even getting in to Walt Disney’s control of radio, publishing and

other holdings.

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