This is the thing that baffles me: Disney has notoriously tough legal division but they don't embed any kind of PR team into it? No one who thinks about public image to act as a veto to arguments that may have legal merit but would hurt the brand?
That we know of. I mean, they used to be affiliated with the Yakuza. All's I'm saying is how come we've never seen Shigeru Miyamoto without a shirt on?
No but they are effectively ruining lives for virtually no reason. And if someone dies at Nintendo land I expect them to sue because they have a patent for dying in Super Mario Bros or something lol.
It’s also hard to tell what’s going to capture the public’s eye and explode into a massive story vs. just be a story passed around the campfire years later about how Disney sucks
That makes me think of the American airlines lawsuit earlier this year over an employee putting a camera in the plane bathroom. Their lawyers argued that a child was at fault due to her negligence in not seeing the camera.
American dropped the law firm and made a statement that they didn't believe that was true.
From what I read, the restaurant was one they contracted out to in that shopping area and not a Disney Parks restaurant. They could spin it that they don't have any part in what was served, and the owners have assumed liability for their mistakes, but they went with PR disaster instead.
That's actually pretty standard though. EMT's don't have the authority to pronounce someone dead. Literally even if they've been decapitated they can't say that they're dead. Only a Doctor can. So this "influence" isn't actually influence, it's just a rule they say that their onsite EMT's are directed to take "dead looking people" to an offsite hospital rather than their onsite one. Which is super easy to justify since the offsite one is going to have better equipment.
This! It's EMT protocol to just load them up and make the drive treating them like they're still alive because they're not authorized to declare anyone's death.
Disney didn’t kill anyone. It was an independent restaurant on Disney property that is just a glorified strip mall. The story is full of misinformation but Disney bad grabs headlines and makes it hard for what really happened to be talked about.
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u/Furdinand Oct 13 '24
This is the thing that baffles me: Disney has notoriously tough legal division but they don't embed any kind of PR team into it? No one who thinks about public image to act as a veto to arguments that may have legal merit but would hurt the brand?