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Huge credit to Alyssa Rosenberg from the Washington Post for being the first to stand up to Disney on this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/11/06/w...

Also for the curious this was the piece that got LA Times blacklisted: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-disney-anaheim-deals/

From that article: Even if the parking garage fills just half its spaces, it would still generate more than $35 million in annual revenue and easily hundreds of millions of dollars over the life of the structure.

That money all goes to Walt Disney Co. The city of Anaheim, which owns the garage and spent $108.2 million to build it, charges the company just $1 a year for the lease.

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I am going to write a letter to the City of Anaheim to inform them I am willing to pay double, maybe even triple, to lease their garage property.

Perhaps there's a law requiring a competitive bidding process ...

Reading that Rosenberg piece it is incredible how much power Google has amassed, to see that they believe that it is crucial to get in their reviews 'early' in order to capture the audience from Google through increased pagerank.

That's a pretty sad testimony to what the web has become, a race to be the first with 'original' content (never mind that 30 other outlets will have the same content within a 24 hour period) in order to sustain a very important plank in the fabric of society: the free press.

It's worse than you think as well - I've heard publishers refer to the "lottery" for repackaging things like John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" or Seth Meyers pieces, etc.

Every major publication tries to get some rank for their 50 word post about how "Jimmy killed it last night" and then puts the YouTube embed on their page.

If they do it right, it's a couple million additional visitors that day/week to their site.

Unless population slaps Disney in a face with a soggy trout by not buying its products or services for a year and until Disney

(a) apologizes

(b) publicly fires everyone who supported that decision nothing is going to change.

Of course nothing is going to change because the population wants to see the next Star Wars.

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