The Walt Disney Company is under fire after blacklisting the Los Angeles Times from advance film screenings in retribution for the newspaper's unfavorable coverage of the media giant's business unit.

Washington Post pop culture columnist Alyssa Rosenberg began a boycott by declaring she would stop attending advance screenings of Disney films.

“As long as Disney is blocking the critics from the Los Angeles Times from press screenings, I can’t in good conscience attend similar showings or write reviews in advance,” Rosenberg wrote on Monday. She included a photo from the upcoming "Star Wars" movie that promises to be the film industry's biggest moneymaker of the year upon its release in December.

I won't attend advance screenings of Disney movies or publish advance reviews until @latimes critics can, too: https://t.co/RxdtD54THR — Alyssa Rosenberg (@AlyssaRosenberg) November 6, 2017

On Monday, the respected A.V. Club entertainment website and The Boston Globe's Ty Burr joined Rosenberg in her boycott, as did acclaimed author and writer David Simon.

If journos being selectively barred, then I'll play, too. This award season, all Disney screeners dumped. No votes from me for their stuff. https://t.co/ih8UqkZk01 — David Simon (@AoDespair) November 7, 2017

The New York Times joined the boycott on Tuesday.

“A powerful company punishing a news organization for a story they do not like is meant to have a chilling effect,” the publication said in a statement. “this is a dangerous precedent and not at all in the public interest.”

The boycott has snowballed, with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics all saying they would work toward disqualifying Disney from award considerations until the blackout of the L.A. Times is rescinded.

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“Disney’s actions are antithetical to the principles of a free press and set a dangerous precedent in a time of already heightened hostility towards journalists,” reads the joint statement.

The Disney studio banned the Los Angeles Times from access to its screenings and talent last week, calling the 136-year-old publication's coverage “biased and inaccurate."

"This year, Walt Disney Co. studios declined to offer The Times advance screenings, citing what it called unfair coverage of its business ties with Anaheim. The Times will continue to review and cover Disney movies and programs when they are available to the public," the newspaper informed its readers one day later.

Disney responded the same day by accusing the paper of a “complete disregard” for journalistic standards.

“We regularly work with news organizations around the world that we don’t always agree with, but in this instance the L.A. Times showed a complete disregard for basic journalistic standards,” Disney said in its statement.

“Despite our sharing numerous indisputable facts with the reporter, several editors, and the publisher over many months, the Times moved forward with a biased and inaccurate series, wholly driven by a political agenda–so much so that the Orange County Register referred to the report as ‘a hit piece’ with a ‘seemingly predetermined narrative.’ We’ve had a long relationship with the L.A. Times, and we hope they will adhere to balanced reporting in the future.”

The boycott comes as speculation grows surrounding a possible 2020 presidential bid by Disney's CEO, Bob Iger.

— This report was updated at 2:55 p.m.