UPDATE: 911 series associated with purge of Sen. Mitchell as Disney Chair

[leveymg]

Apparently, the ABC executives who authorized the post-production media buy of The Path to 9/11 are associated with a new Disney management team.

The current Disney Chairman, fmr. Sen. Mitchell, is on the way out, and is slated to be replaced as Chair next January by the former head of Proctor & Gamble.

There is some speculation that the 9/11 mini-series is tied in with that management shakeup.

By measures such as campaign contributions, Disney has been a relatively Blue company. It also has some alarming aspects, such as the fact that one of its present Board Members also directed Halliburton until recently (he's still shown on the Disney website as a Halliburton Director), and the Disney Board is still interlocked with Boeing, a major defense contractor, and Edison Electric, a large energy company.

For details, see: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/8/133548/0301
also updates: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2080592&mesg_id=2080592

Mark

[aquart]

1. Proctor and Gamble?

So. A satanist is coming to Disney. (Bad aquart. Bad. Unable to resist the devil.)

[MidwestTransplant]

4. Thanks goodness. At least we won't have to worry about Mickey trying to

marry a Box Turtle now!

[hedgehog]

15. I was always disappointed at P&G for folding to the rumor mongers.

I miss their man in the moon logo. On the other hand, the new guy should be exquisitely sensitive to the effect of public opinion on profits.

[Nite Owl]

2. Ahh, the puzzle

pieces are beginning to fit together now aren't they.

[sandnsea]

3. Boards they serve on

Yeah I posted this last night.

John Bryson - Boeing

Judith Estrin - FedEx & SunMicro

Fred Langhammer - Estee Lauder & Shinsei Bank

Alwyn Lewis - KMart & Ebony

Monica Lozano - La Opinion

Robert Matschullat - Seagram

John Pepper - Proctor & Gamble

Orin Smith - Formerly Starbucks, now Nike & Wash Mutual

[DireStrike]

6. Serve, or Served?

I don't understand... can people serve on two boards at once? If so... well I'd ask why, but I think we all know the answer.

[sandnsea]

7. Sure they can

They also own stock in each other.

[Selatius]

16. Yes and no, it depends on anti-trust laws

You can do it if you are serving in two firms in two different industries. You can't do it if you, for instance, serve on the board of both Coca-Cola and Pepsi. They passed laws against this in the end of the 1800s to fight the robber barons of old.

[Sydnie]

17. Check out this site

http://www.theyrule.net

It hasn't been updated since 2004, but it is a good place to start to investigate just who is on what boards and how they are connected. Select "find connection" on the left, choose two companies and click find path. Once the tables are there, click the tables and select members from the list. Then you can click each member and select connections from that person too.

Pretty amazing how so much power is given to so few people.

[dpbrown]

5. More people should know this

Voted it up.

[EFerrari]

8. I'm sorry to be so stupid but, could you give me a quick run down?

I don't remember who Mitchell is/was and this has been a pretty packed week.

And Disney was just blue enough to block the distribution of "Farenheit 911"?

[leveymg]

9. Sen. George Mitchell (D. - Maine)

MITCHELL, George John, (1933 - )

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Senate Years of Service: 1980-1995
Party: Democrat


MITCHELL, George John, a Senator from Maine;served from May 19, 1980 to January 3, 1995; not a candidate for reelection in 1994; chairman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (Ninety-ninth Congress); co-chairman, Democratic Policy Committee, Democratic Conference (One Hundredth through One Hundred Third Congresses); majority leader (1989-1995); Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State for Economic Initiatives in Ireland (1995-2000); chairman, Sharm el-Sheikh International Fact-Finding Committee to examine crisis in Middle East (2000-2001); engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C. (1995-); awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 17, 1999.

History with Disney:
George J. Mitchell
Director since 1995
George J. Mitchell, 72, has served as Chairman of the Board of the Company since March 2004 and is Chairman of the law firm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP.

I would add, one of the nicer, brighter guys who should have been President of the United States. Never really understood why he left the Senate in 1994.

[EFerrari]

10. Thank you, Mark. It's been a wild week. n/t

[nashville_brook]

11. my thought too about Farenheit 9-11 -- contributions buy silence too

[EFerrari]

12. Yes. We have to know what we're up against. n/t

[leveymg]

13. There seem to be overlapping politics - corporate and political - behind

this. Fascinating stuff.

Over at DKos, I'm hearing that we shouldn't do anything to undermine Mitchell, and some ahve even suggested that we're being played. But, there are complicated arguments both ways.

I just can't see allowing the bastards to get away with airing those self-serving lies about 9/11. The bi-partisan version of the whitewash that came from the Commission was bad enough.

[EFerrari]

14. I say we take this opportunity to end the terrorizing of America

No to this one film and no to the politics of fear altogether.

This boycott will work because everyone is fed up with the propoganda. This action is manageable AND timely. Would you want to be boycotted going into the Christmas season?

The timing and the venue couldn't be better if we'd designed it.

[onenote]

18. facts don't support claim

THe new Chairman (from P&G) was announced in June 2006. Mitchell's retirement was announced in 2004 (he hit the mandatory retirement age of 72). This looks like an attempt to connect dots that aren't there.