THE HOUSE OF MOUSE HAS TOO MUCH POWER

This doesn't have anything to do with racism or sexism, but classism 

Feeling Rebloggy

Four eminent film critics’ groups have announced that films from the Walt Disney Company will not be eligible for their respective annual awards until the company lifts a media blackout against the Los Angeles Times.

• The Boston Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics released a joint statement Tuesday that read in part, “On Nov. 3, The Times published a statement that its writers and editors had been blocked from attending advance screenings of Disney films, in response to The Times’ news coverage of Disney’s business arrangements with the City of Anaheim. Disney’s actions, which include an indefinite ban on any interaction with The Times, are antithetical to the principles of a free press and set a dangerous precedent in a time of already heightened hostility toward journalists.”

I'm glad there was severe push back. But Disney has too much power as do Rupurt Murdock, ATT, and Time Warner. These huge conglomerates are merging and diverging and trading news outlets betwixt each other like crazy. It seems like less than a dozen individuals in the one-percenter class already have control over every bit of news and entertainment we mentally consume. And they're trying to reduce that number to 5 or 6 with upcoming mergers.

You see how Disney is acting already, right? 

This is not good.  People like Cornell West have been saying America is about to be one giant corporation instead of a republic for a while now. I think we are well on our way.