Darkbeer
03-24-2004, 08:33 PM
Running Disney's Word Machine (http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-zenia24mar24,1,2494888.story?coll=la-home-business) - Los Angeles Times, 3/24/04
QuikQuote: Shortly before, Mucha appeared to get her fingers burned by some negative campaigning. A Feb. 22 New York Times Magazine story by Deborah Solomon said Mucha e-mailed about 20 articles chronicling shortcomings by firms associated with former director Roy E. Disney, who has led the campaign against Eisner.
Mucha's associates said Solomon had requested research material on the former Disney board member and Norman Rockwell, about whom she is writing a book — a contention that, in Disney's case, the author disputes. "I certainly did not ask Zenia to send me negative articles," Solomon said. She described the outpouring of material on Roy Disney as "a Soviet-like deluge of propaganda going back to 1979."
QuikQuote: Shortly before, Mucha appeared to get her fingers burned by some negative campaigning. A Feb. 22 New York Times Magazine story by Deborah Solomon said Mucha e-mailed about 20 articles chronicling shortcomings by firms associated with former director Roy E. Disney, who has led the campaign against Eisner.
Mucha's associates said Solomon had requested research material on the former Disney board member and Norman Rockwell, about whom she is writing a book — a contention that, in Disney's case, the author disputes. "I certainly did not ask Zenia to send me negative articles," Solomon said. She described the outpouring of material on Roy Disney as "a Soviet-like deluge of propaganda going back to 1979."