Read the @latimes investigation that Disney doesn't want you to see.

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Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/fahrenthold

Read the @latimes investigation that Disney doesn’t want you to see: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-disney-anaheim-deals/ …

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Disney has blacklisted the @LATimes over its Anaheim reporting. This tactic should concern journalists everywhere.

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Is Disney paying its share in Anaheim?

The money battle outside the Happiest Place on Earth.

By DANIEL MILLER

SEPT. 24, 2017

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1. Disney is not a nice company

Back around 1970 or 71 I was transferred to Orlando by my company, setting up and managing a metal fabricating operation in that city. I bid on a job at Disney World, part of an expansion project there, and later found out that I got the job because I was the only one bidding on it. In talking to local companies, I found out that all local contractors had quit bidding jobs for Disney, and was told that I would soon find out why.

I did indeed find out why. They demanded work which was not in the contract and refused to sign add orders which would require them to pay for it. They invented quality problems which would allow them to reduce payments. They paid very late and sometimes not at all. They moved up delivery dates and then used penalty clauses to deduct payment based on the advanced delivery dates.

By the time I finished that contract, and lost money on it, I was among the local contractors who would no longer bid on work at Disney World. All of their work was being done by out of state contractors.

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2. Disney has never been a nice company..

Going back to the 30s, there are stories that Disney paid a third of what other animation companies were paying. Disney thought that it was some kind of "privilege" and "honor" to work there. Women were not treated equally and never got the top jobs. There was a strike to get more pay in the early 40s, but it was not successful. The very top animation directors, got paid well, (there were seven well known directors) and almost the rest of the staff was paid much less than those at Warner Bros. There many well known animation people who left Disney (mainly because of low pay) to work elsewhere. While he was a creative genius in his field, he was known as anti-semetic and totally anti women. It is sad to find out the truth about Walt Disney, but it is not well known. But that is what I found out in doing some research on him. He was in many was...an as**le.

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3. The A.V. Club will no longer attend Disney press screenings until the L.A. Times can

Retweeted by Dave Weigel: https://twitter.com/daveweigel

I won't attend advance screenings of Disney movies or publish advance reviews until @latimes critics can, too:

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Why I won’t be reviewing ‘The Last Jedi,’ or any other Disney movie, in advance

By Alyssa Rosenberg November 6 at 12:53 PM

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The AV Club "will follow {@alyssarosenberg}'s lead" and not attend Disney press screenings

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The A.V. Club will no longer attend Disney press screenings until the L.A. Times can

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