Media Watch
January 29, 2019
Disney CEO Bob Iger: Please Address My Outraged Community
This is the first time in our history we have not heard from Disney’s leader at a time like this. Enough is enough. We are family. READ MORE
Letters to the Editor and Responses to Issues in the News
Media Watch
January 29, 2019
This is the first time in our history we have not heard from Disney’s leader at a time like this. Enough is enough. We are family. READ MORE
Media Watch
January 29, 2019
As community partners, many of our discussions and action items revolved around preventing violent extremism. In most cases, if not all, media played a big role in dehumanizing the other. READ MORE
Media Watch
January 29, 2019
The idea that Disney would sponsor programs that incite hatred against religions from my perspective is unconscionable. READ MORE
Media Watch
October 15, 2018
How would you feel, Ms. Newton, if Disney decided to fund and air a program which depicted the majority of Black youth as under-educated criminals…or the majority of young black women as unwed mothers? Wouldn’t you be... READ MORE
Media Watch
October 15, 2018
The point of this letter is to bring to your attention the following: The Walt Disney Company is currently producing a show that is based solely on an attack of my religion. READ MORE
Media Watch
October 15, 2018
Our ministers and parishioners have provided relief in disasters around the world, helping victims of floods, riots, bombings, tornadoes, tsunamis, brush fires, and countless other natural and man-made disasters. READ MORE
Media Watch
July 5, 2018
My hope is that you will step up and do the right thing and not be similarly out of touch and insensitive. Alert people who take meaningful action are the ones who make the world a better place. READ MORE
Media Watch
June 1, 2018
I want to express gratitude for the courage and moral sensitivity you displayed for supporting the cancellation of the Roseanne series following the hateful and bigoted tweet from Ms. Barr. READ MORE
Media Watch
January 15, 2018
Under these circumstances (not to mention the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights, both of which espouse freedom of religion) the employment of Paul Buccieri, Nancy Dubuc and Rob... READ MORE
Media Watch
January 14, 2018
Time will reveal the truth about Ms. Remini, who is known everywhere for doing this show strictly for money and personal publicity. It really is rather pathetic that Disney would support such a low, degraded show on their... READ MORE
Media Watch
January 6, 2018
If you care at all about the numerous members of my religion that this hurts, do not continue this brutal, mean-spirited, lie-filled series. A public apology would restore my faith in the Disney name, but nothing less would. READ MORE
Media Watch
January 6, 2018
Leah Remini’s program needs to end. All should be given the chance to find out about Scientology for themselves. They are owed and deserve that. READ MORE
Media Watch
January 4, 2018
That Disney and A&E would leverage the bottom feeding gossip columns to sell such bigoted vitriol against my religion of 45 years is despicable. READ MORE
Media Watch
January 4, 2018
The hateful and false claims from the Leah Remini Aftermath show do in fact create damage. Those false claims incite hate, bigotry and violence, not in theory but in the reality of hard cold facts. READ MORE
Media Watch
December 23, 2017
Anything that would distance Disney and A&E from the sour taste this show has put in all of our mouths, I would support. Please get back to shows that serve the public and enhance your own reputation. READ MORE
Media Watch
December 12, 2017
I would expect, as well, that Disney and A&E apologize for allowing Remini and Rinder et al. to shovel this bevy of lies on the American public. If you did this to Christians or Jews you can bet you would get worse letters... READ MORE
Media Watch
December 12, 2017
I am a Scientologist and a proud one at that. I’m also Jewish and as a Jewish person I never had to worry about being attacked for my religious orientation in America and surely would never imagine it being condoned by one... READ MORE
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