These are the not-so-good news related to Disney from this past week.
1. A 13-year old girl accused a man of sexually assaulting her on a Disney cruise ship. My question in things like this is that, if this really happened (we still have to give this person the benefit of the doubt till he has his day in court), what in the world made him think he can get away with it? I mean, it's not as if he could just run away!
2. ABC network forced the ISP of a blogger to take down his website due to excerpts of noxious comments made on an ABC radio talk show. I really doubt that this came down from the Disney corporate offices, but someone from ABC has turned this into a publicity nightmare instead of it being extremely non-consequential. Of course, the whole Walt Disney Corporation also got mud slinged in its direction because of this just because ABC is owned by the company. Corporate lawyers should be forced to use this as a case study where non-doing something would have been a lot more preferable. This whole incident is just plain dumb.
3. Disney reached an out-of-court settlement with the family of a woman from Spain who died a couple of months later after riding the Indiana Jones attraction at Disneyland. I don't know what to make of this, because Disney seldom back down on lawsuits. I have been on this attraction this past June, and it is a FUN ride, very much like the Dinosour ride at Animal Kingdom. However, while it is intense, it is all similar to a simulated ride. So it's not as if you're on a roller coaster or anything like that.
But other than that, it's just business as usual!
:)
Zz
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