After growing media pressure, Disney lifted its media blackout of the Los Angeles Times, which had barred movie critics at the publication from attending press screenings of its movies. Disney originally blacklisted the newspaper after it published an investigation of the entertainment giant’s business ties to the city of Anaheim, which Disney called “unfair.”

In response, writers, film critic associations, and publications like The Washington Post, The A.V. Club, the National Society of Film Critics, and most recently, The New York Times, stepped up in solidarity with the Los Angeles Times, announcing that they would boycott advance screenings of Disney Films. A.A. Dowd wrote for The A.V. Club, “Now more than ever, journalists need to…

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