J Lee
12-04-2001, 11:11 PM
This is a pretty long piece by Mark Steyn, who is a Canadian living in the U.S. It's from Canada's National Post, but his columns usually also appear in the Chicago Sun Times.
He gets a couple of things wrong, but considing how many mistakes mainstream journalists and columnists tend to make when talking about the world of animation, he gets a lot of things right as well. Also, considering Steyn is usually right-of-center politically, he goes pretty easy on Michael Eisner and the changes he's brough to the Magic Kingdom, apparently because he feels the alternative back in the 1980s -- a hostile takeover and break-up of the Disney organization -- would have been worse.
In Walt's Word, Childhood Never Ends (http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20011203/816561.html)
He gets a couple of things wrong, but considing how many mistakes mainstream journalists and columnists tend to make when talking about the world of animation, he gets a lot of things right as well. Also, considering Steyn is usually right-of-center politically, he goes pretty easy on Michael Eisner and the changes he's brough to the Magic Kingdom, apparently because he feels the alternative back in the 1980s -- a hostile takeover and break-up of the Disney organization -- would have been worse.
In Walt's Word, Childhood Never Ends (http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20011203/816561.html)