This movie is NOW showing on The Sundance channel. It looks like this may be the only showing...unless it repeats next week...
This is a "must see"if you haven't seen it yet. It's about the pervasiveness of "Corporations" and just how in control they really are. It is alleged, for example, that IBM was the company making millions after the war from the keypunch cards they made and processed recording what happened to all the citizens who encoded up in various concentration camps...all entries numerically coded.
Check your local listings...this is really scary to know just how long and deep Corporations have been in collusion with the Government. What really happens to broadcasters who find and want to report derogatory evidence of products sold to us.
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/corporation/review/137483<snip>
The Corporation
Released in conjunction with law professor Joel Bakan's book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, Mark Achbar (MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA) and Jennifer Abbott's excoriating documentary offers a stinging diagnosis of contemporary American society's dominant institution. If corporations were people — and under the provisions of the 14th Amendment, which was originally drafted to protect the life, liberty and property of freed slaves, the law does regard corporations as individuals — our for-profit, publicly traded companies would be considered stone-cold psychopaths. To demonstrate Bakan's thesis, Achbar and Abbott use the World Health Organization's Personality Diagnostic Checklist as a framework for much of their two-and-a-half-hour film. In an age of extreme capitalism, corporations are single-mindedly self-interested and exhibit a reckless disregard for others; they're deceitful, amoral and unable to maintain relationships; and in the end they're incapable of experiencing guilt. In short, corporations manifest all the characteristics of sociopaths. That's a harsh conclusion, but none of the talking heads interviewed — not neoliberal economist Milton Friedman, and certainly not Noam Chomsky or popular anticorporate pundit Naomi Klein (No Logo) — dispute the basic analysis. Concerned only with profit, corporations have no interest in the public good and they're not designed to. A corporate CEO's legal mandate is to maximize benefits for the company's shareholders, nothing more and nothing less.
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I imagine that a lot of this will not be a big surprise to many of us here at DU.
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