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President Clinton has denounced it, Disney's buyout of ABC may have foreshadowed it, and thelong-distance telephone and cable companies are lobbying furiously to make it the law of the land. After midnight Thursday, the House is expected to pass a major telecommunications reform package that could transform the marketplace, freeing cable-TV and local and long-distance telephone companies to get into each other's businesses. Critics, including the President, worry that such massive deregulation would encourage media firms like Disney to merge into near-monopolies. "They're taking it up in the middle of the night, when...
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...else but Disney would try to convince America that a twoton elephant could be air-dropped from a military cargo plane into a remote Vietnamese mountain village? This latest creation from the Magic Kingdom could be easily passed over by the avid moviegoer--if only it weren't a true story...
That's right. Disney wasn't content to release just one movie grounded in historical fact this summer; last Friday Operation Dumbo Drop joined Pocohantas as the company's second summer family flick that's based on a true story...
...industry when he announced this morning thatDisneywill acquire Capital Cities/ABC in a $19 billion merger. The deal would be the second-largest takeover in U.S. history (behind the $25 billion takeover of RJR-Nabisco in 1989) and the largest ever in the media business. Getting hitched to family-friendly Disney may mean top-rated ABC will see its competitors exploiting new counterprogramming opportunities. "I think ABC will probably steer away from the more lurid programs, which might make the other networks go in that direction," said Time's Jeffrey Ressner in Los Angeles. The merger, already approved by the boards...