Mickey's misdirection misfires OR "Since when do new animated features get announced on Sunday afternoons?" (http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm) - Jim Hill Media, 1/12/04

QuikQuote: You understand that no mention will be made at all of the 250 people who are officially being put out of work today. Or the tens of millions of dollars that the Walt Disney Company had already invested in training the WDFAF staff to work in the CG format. Or the virtually brand new $70 million facility that the Mouse had built expressly for its Florida animators back in 1998 ... which is now going to stand empty backstage at the Disney-MGM theme park.
No, Disney's flaks aren't going to want to answer any questions like that today when the studio's public relations office finally officially reopens for business later this morning. Which is why they're going to try and spin the sh*t out of this extremely awful situation. Always stressing the positive ("Did you see that we announced production of a brand new animated film yesterday?") rather than the negative ("Yeah, it was pretty terrible how we jerked all of those WDFAF staffers around for the past two months.")