Mixed Reviews Force Disney to Censor LA Times?

[tomm2thumbs]

call it what you will, when 100% of the most important news stories in the world are plastered over by an ad for a movie, relegating EVERYTHING to page two, it doesn't bode well for the journalistic integrity of the Los Angeles Times.

reference:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/06/los-angeles-times-front-p_n_488593.html


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[ixion]

1. wow... slap a drug-addled lard-butt celeb on there and call them a tabloid

*sigh*

Ironically, the LA Times review panned the flick.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/04/entertainment/la-et-alice4-2010mar04

Review: 'Alice in Wonderland'
Despite Johnny Depp, the film feels more like a Tim Burton derivative than something he actually did himself.
MOVIE REVIEW
March 04, 2010|By Kenneth Turan FILM CRITIC >>>

One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small, and the pills Tim Burton gives you don't do very much at all.

With apologies to Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," that more or less sums up "Alice in Wonderland," the director's middling new version of the Lewis Carroll tale. It has its successful moments but it's surprisingly inert overall, more like a Burton derivative than something he actually did himself.

[tomm2thumbs]

5. thanks for the link - couldn't even find the review by search the first time

it would usually be on their front page - I wonder why they haven't put it there this time... ? (cha-ching$$$$)

[SpiralHawk]

2. Lots of people panning the flick - a Tim Burton pointless crapathon

blowing millions of disneybucks for craptastic crudola.

[DBoon]

3. journalistic integrity parted ways with the LA Times years ago

the paper has been in a race to the bottom for at least 10 years now

[tomm2thumbs]

10. should just call it 'The LA Enquirer' already and get it over with

this was a final death blow to any integrity that was lingering

[tomm2thumbs]

11. no irony in that it was 'Alice in Wonderland' either vs. serious film with some redeeming value

[Ozymanithrax]

4. I wonder when they will rebuild the Alice in Wonderland Ride in Fantasy land?

I don't think the word censorship quite applies. I did not see that they change the stories in the news to fit their own view. Blatant and grotesque commercialism is a better description.

[Sultana]

6. Tim Burton, his wife and Depp are OVERRATED!

[Codeine]

7. One more reason to hate America's

second-most overrated director. Burton's pointless maudlin garbage is only surpassed in its craptacularness by James "Oooh neat! CGI" Cameron's video-game nonsense.

A pox on both of their lazy, artless asses.

[tomm2thumbs]

8. Reuter's thoughts on the news being pushed to page 2 by corporate dollars

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times' critic may have panned the film, but that didn't stop Disney from paying top dollar to turn the newspaper's front page into a special advertisement on Friday for the new movie, "Alice in Wonderland." The ad, believed to be the first of its kind among America's leading big-city dailies, dismayed some readers and was lamented by media scholars as the latest troubling sign of difficult times at the newspaper and for journalism generally.

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9. adding link to reuter's article - estimated close to a million dollars paid for front page

'Hollywood blogger Sharon Waxman cited one "media buyer insider" as saying the Walt Disney Co, the studio behind the film, paid $700,000 for the space.

"That's a low price to sell your soul," said Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies'


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link
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6250BL20100306

[Initech]

12. Better not say anything against the almighty Disney corp arond here...

Oh wait, I thought the review was pretty spot-on. It's like "Hey! Let's take a childhood favorite Disney movie and remake it for the Hot Topic crowd!". :puke: