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No, that's not what they should have done. If they stood by their reporting, the response to violence or bullying doesn't always have to be more violence or bul
by zaroth 9y ago
No, that's not what they should have done. If they stood by their reporting, the response to violence or bullying doesn't always have to be more violence or bullying. It's actually possible to stand by your reporting, and continue to pursue a story, without resorting to blackmail.
Both sides demonstrated their moral flexibility for using extortion to get what they wanted. That much is clear.
What makes me "weep" is the abundance of logical fallacies deployed against my stated suspicion of the tactics used by a very powerful group to bring Disney to heel. Maybe they needed to be brought to heel, but I dislike the methods and again I am deeply suspicious of the coordinated exercise of power which was on display here.
- BEEdwards 9y agoNot reviewing a movie based on a prescreeining isn't "bullying" by any stretch of the imagination.
- zaroth 9y agoI agree completely. You may have missed, from TFA: On Tuesday, members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics denounced Disney’s blackout of The Los Angeles Times. Each group voted to disqualify Disney’s movies from year-end award consideration unless the blackout was “publicly rescinded.” If I'm not mistaken, those awards are worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Disney. It seemed like a significant escalation to me! EDIT: I was an order of magnitude off in the estimated value of winning a half dozen Academy Awards.