The Parents Television and Media Council is currently having a meltdown over “the world’s most trusted brand” as Disney+ adds R-rated content to their streaming service.
The Parents Television and Media Council recently made a new post on their half-functioning website about the downfall of “decades of corporate brilliance” that Disney has apparently demonstrated up until now. Disney is brilliant from a vicious corporate perspective but not for the reasons the PTC thinks.
The post from PTC is in regards to Disney+ recently adding the R-rated films Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan. The PTC says that this is a breach of trust to those who look to Disney to provide “family-friendly” content which is funny because why would Disney ever care in the slightest about what a small council of allegedly 12,000 members has to say about them adding three movies?
The PTC was founded in 1995 by conservative Christian activist L. Brent Bozell and routinely looks to blame all of the problems in American society on… TV-MA content. Here is its statement on Disney’s decision to add three R-rated films to its streaming service.
LOS ANGELES (July 22, 2022) – The Parents Television and Media Council (PTC) chastised Disney+ for breaking its 2019 promise not to add R-rated movies to its streaming platform. Disney+ made R-rated Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan available to subscribers today.
“Three years ago, the Walt Disney Company made a promise to families: No R-rated movies on Disney+, they said. It’s a family-focused platform, they said. We have Hulu for our edgier adult fare, they said. It turns out they were lying to us. After decades of corporate brilliance establishing itself as the world’s most trusted brand for families, today’s C-level suite at Disney has decided to flush it all down the toilet,” said PTC President Tim Winter.
“While Disney+ points subscribers to its parental controls, the mere presence of R-rated and TV-MA rated content violates the trust and sensibilities of families. What took decades to build is now taking mere months to erase.
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“One day in the no-too-distant future, business schools will point back to this abrupt corporate U-turn as they analyze what happened to the once-great Walt Disney Company. And in the meantime, families will continue to be woefully underserved by Hollywood.”
Bizarre posts such as the one above aren’t the exception to PTC’s weirdo behaviour, but the rule. Posts such as, “Netflix and its board of directors are getting rich off of explicit content. Worse, they are desensitizing millions of viewers at home by asking them to be entertained by it. What kind of America are we creating for our kids?” are frequent on their website.
The contradiction in the messaging that they are offering is that the PTC is pointing toward works of art in media as the source of society’s problems instead of the economic and political structure of society itself. Most of the shows the PTC has an issue with are pointing a critical lens at issues that already exist in society itself. Then, the PTC and its members come along, either too ignorant to understand or willfully misinterpreting the content they see, and point at the shadow of the real problem as the problem itself. It’s extremely feckless and unproductive.
