Marketing Earth Day (and Other Stuff) to Children
Have you done your Earth Day shopping yet? Corporations use Earth Day to sell us on the belief that we can buy our way into ecological sustainability. We can't.
Have you done your Earth Day shopping yet? Corporations use Earth Day to sell us on the belief that we can buy our way into ecological sustainability. We can't.
Charles Warner | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media
Pali Research's Richard Greenfield has downgraded the stock of the Walt Disney Company because of a poor outlook for Pixar's new animated film to be released in May.
Elisabeth Braw | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
Hamas has studied Disney. Hamas' own Mickey Mouse, Farfour, starred in a TV show - also available on the internet - until he was killed by Israelis.
Jake Brewer | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green
Earth is a stunning masterpiece that will leave even the most ardent coal lobbyist in awe of our planet and yearning to see more -- and to preserve it.
Wendy Diamond | Posted 05.02.2009 | Style
During the vegan dinner Lucky and I schmoozed with Byron Howard, one of the directors of the animated Disney hit film Bolt. Lucky spent the whole time flirting with him!
Bloomberg | Andy Fixmer and Sarah Rabil | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc.'s spinoff of its cable division dropped the New York-based owner of Time magazine and Warner Bros. to third p...
AP | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media
LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. said Monday it has agreed to provide short-form videos from its ABC and ESPN television properties to run on G...
Marc Gunther | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
Here's one answer: Instead of motivating people or trying to coerce them, companies can inspire them.
Disgrasian | Posted 04.25.2009 | Entertainment
Why disappoint your fans? Why not stick to doing what you do best, and by that I mean wearing scarves and trimming your bushy eyebrows so they don't grow down into your eyes?
Rachel Thebault | Posted 04.23.2009 | Style
Disney World is like giving birth. It's a really painful experience, but you have to do it once for your kids. But it has a lot in common with one of my favorite places to visit -- Las Vegas.
Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.12.2009 | Comedy
This year I've adopted a new system. I'm betting on the colleges with the highest SAT scores and the strictest admission's policies.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media
The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.
Jay Marose | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media
For PR people, media conglomeration has only made the ability to garner press coverage of your product, be it a entertainment, consumer items or causes, based on its own merits more difficult.
AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Disney Channel is going back to school with "High School Musical 4." The fourth iteration of the popular musical franchise wi...
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
Can somebody spell the words, "advertisers" and "boycott," and then can the congregation give me a resounding, amen?
AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 03.29.2009 | Entertainment
Someday, we may actually get a clue as to what makes the Jonas Brothers tick. We may get a glimpse into the pop stars' distinct personalities _ becau...
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 03.21.2009 | Entertainment
Over the weekend the Cruise family, minus oldest daughter Bella, went to Disney World. Suri Cruise, dressed in matching princess dresses to Cinderel...
New York Times | Brooks Barnes | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media
The Walt Disney Company, having won a dominant position in the entertainment industry's quest to attract young girls, is making an all-or-nothing pus...
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 03.12.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co.'s motion picture arm said Monday it has agreed to a long-term exclusive distribution deal with Steven Spielber...
New York Times | BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY | Posted 03.10.2009 | Business
Steven Spielberg seems headed to the Walt Disney Company after a surprise parting of the ways with Universal Pictures, with whom he signed a deal jus...
Christiana Wyly | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green
I decided to do a series of highlights to share some reflections from TED. The range of the unveilings in the fields of art, music, and technology have been astonishing.
Mike Bonifer | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
Quit all the debating about the work and get to work, to the business of getting citizens into lifeboats. A seat on a lifeboat will lead to a profoundly productive life that will benefit all of us.
Huffington Post | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media
Below, a collection of the various media cuts, layoffs, ousters, and other doom and gloom news to hit the industry in the last day or so: The Baltimo...
AP | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
The Walt Disney Co.'s television division is cutting 400 jobs, or about 6 percent of the unit's work force, due to the slumping economy. The cuts inc...
Wall Street Journal | Peter Sanders | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
Walt Disney Co. is making a push to crack a market that few media companies have been able to conquer -- boys aged 6-14. Next month, the company will...
Susan Linn | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green