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 Abbot...