DWilliamsamh's Journal - Letter I sent to Disney.

I have called and e-mailed my local affiliate (WPVI 6ABC in Philadelphia) and I Sent this e-mail (since snail mail won't get to CA in time from the east coast) to Disney Stockholder Services:

Jennifer,

Thanks you for your attentive response to my concerns regarding the airing of "Path to 9/11" on the Disney owned ABC television network.

I wanted to reiterate that as a Disney stock holder (ING) I will be placing a sell order to be executed on Tuesday morning. Like many Americans I have had a love of almost all things Disney from the time I was a child and have spent many vacations in Disney resorts and both the major theme parks. I will no longer knowingly spend my money on any Disney product, in including television, merchandise, theater releases, DVD video or any other media.

The reason I have made this decision is very simple: When Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" was set to be distributed through the Disney company, Disney refused to distribute the film, explaining that it is a political film and is outside Disney's interests and that the corporation was afraid that it might endanger millions of dollars in tax breaks. Disney also clothed its public face in a facade of "non-partisanship."

Yet now a Disney division is airing a commercial free "docu-drama" that contains serious errors of fact, not to mention defamatory assertions of events that never happened. That is according to one of their own advisers regarding terrorism, Richard Clark, who served in an anti-terrorism capacity in the first Bush administration, the Clinton administration and the second Bush administration. To add insult to injury ABC has provided advanced copies of the film to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, but refused copies to the actual people depicted; including President Clinton, and Secretary Albright when they requested them.

It is obvious that the Disney Corporation has decided to distribute a blatant piece of right wing propaganda.

It is of the utmost urgency that Disney direct ABC to either correct the factual errors or refuse to run this politically biased filth.

With Sincere Regret and Anger,

Jennifer was the representative I spoke with on the phone. I told her much the same thing that I said in the letter.