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==Controversy==
 
==Controversy==
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A shareholder meeting with Iger had Justin Danhof, an attorney for the National Center for Public Policy Research and a Disney shareholder, citing that ABC and ESPN (both branches of Disney) were undergoing Anti-Christian and Anti-Conservative biases in their reporting, and stated they should stop. He received applause by the shareholders, something Danhof cited that he never experienced before.<ref>http://www.christianpress.com/index.php/us/476-disney-criticized-for-anti-christian-anti-conservative-bias-at-shareholder-meeting</ref> He later brought ABC's left-wing bias up again during the 2017 shareholder's meeting, in particular the complaints about having bias during the 2016 election cycle, although Bob Iger claimed the complaints were "completely exaggerated" and that they were as fair as possible in their coverage.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/09/disney-boss-says-no-political-bias-at-abc-news-and-espn-complaints-completely-exaggerated/</ref> Earlier, he also was confronted by Tom Borelli, another member of the National Center for Public Policy Research, over his preventing the release of Path to 9/11 onto DVD, which resulted in Bob Iger violating his own code of not using foul language by dropping the F-bomb to Borelli.<ref>http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-Disney_Iger_Shareholder031009.html</ref>
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A shareholder meeting with Iger had Justin Danhof, an attorney for the National Center for Public Policy Research and a Disney shareholder, citing that ABC and ESPN (both branches of Disney) were undergoing Anti-Christian and Anti-Conservative biases in their reporting, and stated they should stop. He received applause by the shareholders, something Danhof cited that he never experienced before.<ref>http://www.christianpress.com/index.php/us/476-disney-criticized-for-anti-christian-anti-conservative-bias-at-shareholder-meeting</ref> He later brought ABC's left-wing bias up again during the 2017 shareholder's meeting, in particular the complaints about having bias during the 2016 election cycle, although Bob Iger claimed the complaints were "completely exaggerated" and that they were as fair as possible in their coverage.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/09/disney-boss-says-no-political-bias-at-abc-news-and-espn-complaints-completely-exaggerated/</ref> Earlier, he also was confronted by Tom Borelli, another member of the National Center for Public Policy Research, over his preventing the release of Path to 9/11 onto DVD, which resulted in Bob Iger violating his own code of not using foul language by dropping the F-bomb to Borelli.<ref>http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-Disney_Iger_Shareholder031009.html (archive link [https://web.archive.org/web/20090312053429/https://nationalcenter.org/PR-Disney_Iger_Shareholder031009.html here])</ref>
    
Around 2009, Iger ended up requesting for a "Golden Coffin" (where he continues to receive payments after he dies should he die on the job), which various Stockholders were outraged at, including Cornish Hitchcock, the lawyer who crafts shareholder proposals.<ref>http://deadline.com/2009/03/disneys-iger-getting-a-golden-coffin-8745/</ref>
 
Around 2009, Iger ended up requesting for a "Golden Coffin" (where he continues to receive payments after he dies should he die on the job), which various Stockholders were outraged at, including Cornish Hitchcock, the lawyer who crafts shareholder proposals.<ref>http://deadline.com/2009/03/disneys-iger-getting-a-golden-coffin-8745/</ref>
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