A new magazine called “Radar” is working on beating drums for itself by running an article that profiles how college students working for Disney party hardy in their dorms after hours, blowing off steam after a long day of steaming inside their hot Mickey and Minnie costumes.
I will be making sure to avoid this magazine.
I mean, how in the world does this qualify as news? College students are horny and act on their impulses in seclusion after hours. This is NEWS? This rates an article ANYWHERE, much less in the New York Daily News and CBS Evening news?
First off, the fact that Disney employees blow off steam after hours is something I found out twenty years ago, when someone slipped me a brilliantly satirical video filmed on the fly in the Park tunnels after hours. Called “Captain Eeyore,” it was a shot-for-shot parody of “Captain EO” except featuring Disney costumed characters. You have not lived until you’ve seen Eeyore moonwalking. So a new concept this is not.
So we’ve got over-18 Park employees, on their own time, in the privacy of their secluded dorm, doing whatever the hëll they want, and it doesn’t impact on their interaction with tourists during the day. So flipping what? The author of the magazine claims that there are “legends” of character actors mixing with the public while still stoned or hungover. Okay. “Legends.” Trot out the proof that it’s ever happened, and/or that it’s a pervasive problem, or shut the hëll up.
Understand, I don’t view Disney through rose-colored Mickey glasses. I’m busy reading “Disney War.” I have no illusions. But this…this is just crap journalism. It’s sensationalistic twaddle, and the NY Daily News (which, by the way, cops to the fact that its chairman and publisher is co-chairman of “Radar”) and any other news venue which picks this up should be ashamed of themselves.
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