The Walt Disney Corporation was founded in 1923 under the name Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio by brothers Walt and Roy Disney. The company brandished its current name in 1986 after the death of Walt Disney (1). This company like other large conglomerates has a vice grip on the flow of information that reaches consumers like you and me. Some people believe that having these corporations constricting our access to information leads to a generation of uninformed people, but in the day and age when anybody can get onto to google and search with specific enough criteria to find articles proving any stand point… they were going to be uninformed any way. For example, there are people out there who believe vaccines cause autism, there are plenty of
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It means that the way a historic event will be remembered the most is from the viewpoint of those who are “writing history” i.e. “the victors.” This is the way I try to look at life, there is always another side to any story, but when you live in the United States during World War II, there was only one “American” viewpoint. Der Fuehrer’s Face is an Anti-Nazi propaganda cartoon produced in 1943 starring Donald Duck, it represents the enemy in a way that is dehumanizing as to seemingly cloud the judgement of the younger folks that the cartoons are geared towards. During this same time period however, many other media outlets were doing the exact same thing. Marvel comics created the superhero Captain America to show the American people that you don’t need super powers to be a hero, and Chris Evans (aka Captain America) is literally punching Hitler in the face on the front cover of the first ever issue of the comic. That means that more companies than Disney were spreading propaganda around this time, and that along does not make this company evil. Although there are people who believe that the Walt Disney Corporation is forcing subliminal messaging upon today’s youth and corrupting them with their “obvious ties to Satan,” and like I stated in my introduction “they were going to be uninformed any way.” There is a popular conspiracy that Walt Disney himself hated Jews, however there …show more content…
Using numbers from 2015 I am going to compare the annual revenue of the Walt Disney Corporation with the revenue of another small business you may have heard of, Walmart. In 2014 Disney reported that it, and all of its subsidiaries yielded $52.46 billion through the work of their 180,000 employees. That totals out to roughly $291,444 per person employed (I only use that as the measure because Walmart employees more people). Walmart reported $482.13 billion and 2.3 million employees. That puts Walmart at $209,621 per employee. It’s an interesting thought that a company like Walmart with millions of people working for them around the world make less money per person working for them then a company like Disney which reaches almost as many people though it’s wide range of media outlets, but with a fraction of the number employed
It means that the way a historic event will be remembered the most is from the viewpoint of those who are “writing history” i.e. “the victors.” This is the way I try to look at life, there is always another side to any story, but when you live in the United States during World War II, there was only one “American” viewpoint. Der Fuehrer’s Face is an Anti-Nazi propaganda cartoon produced in 1943 starring Donald Duck, it represents the enemy in a way that is dehumanizing as to seemingly cloud the judgement of the younger folks that the cartoons are geared towards. During this same time period however, many other media outlets were doing the exact same thing. Marvel comics created the superhero Captain America to show the American people that you don’t need super powers to be a hero, and Chris Evans (aka Captain America) is literally punching Hitler in the face on the front cover of the first ever issue of the comic. That means that more companies than Disney were spreading propaganda around this time, and that along does not make this company evil. Although there are people who believe that the Walt Disney Corporation is forcing subliminal messaging upon today’s youth and corrupting them with their “obvious ties to Satan,” and like I stated in my introduction “they were going to be uninformed any way.” There is a popular conspiracy that Walt Disney himself hated Jews, however there …show more content…
Using numbers from 2015 I am going to compare the annual revenue of the Walt Disney Corporation with the revenue of another small business you may have heard of, Walmart. In 2014 Disney reported that it, and all of its subsidiaries yielded $52.46 billion through the work of their 180,000 employees. That totals out to roughly $291,444 per person employed (I only use that as the measure because Walmart employees more people). Walmart reported $482.13 billion and 2.3 million employees. That puts Walmart at $209,621 per employee. It’s an interesting thought that a company like Walmart with millions of people working for them around the world make less money per person working for them then a company like Disney which reaches almost as many people though it’s wide range of media outlets, but with a fraction of the number employed