“In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."” Has BeensExampleIndustryProtectTradeCorporateRejectedRestraintFree TradePrerogativeDesignationAscendancyInfringement Author:Herbert Schiller
“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.” PeopleWarLyingSupportMediaArmsIndustryCorporateLegendsRumorPumpsInnuendoMega Author:Mumia Abu-Jamal
“We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.” TryingCountryWholeGovernmentEconomicDevelopmentIndustrySucceedProgramDetermineCorporateRangeEngagedRegionsFederal GovernmentEconomic Development Author:Stephen Harper
“If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.” IfsStatesRealityWould BeUnitedBehindsUnited StatesMediaIndustryBarsCorporateDeliberateDistortion Author:Cynthia McKinney
“I just implore local music fans to get out on a regular basis to support the local bands that you like. If you find what the corporate record industry shovels out as distasteful, prove that there's a demand for something different and better. I don't expect everyone else to do the two or three nights a week that I did at my peak, but two or three shows a month isn't much of a burden for true music fans!” IfsTwoDifferentShowsNightThreeSupportRecordsWeekFansMonthsIndustryBandDemandProveBasesBurdenLocalsCorporateShovelsDistastefulMusic Fans Author:Larry Howes
“Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.” ShouldPlansPolicyIndustryCorporateMediocrityDoomedTypicalCompetitorsDisadvantages Author:Bruce Henderson
“Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.” ThinkingPowerfulIndustryMusic IsCorporatePale Author:Paul Simon
“The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.” PeopleWellsMadeWholeBigsSeemsFacesOrderQualityClassEconomyIndustryDirectorsWorkersTreatedCorporateCynicismSuspicionStubbornBig ThingsSmall ThingsFace To FaceResentSecretive Book:The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
“Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.” IfsWholeWould BeTodayWantedAmericaLawLevelsFocusFieldsProduceProductsIndustryCitizensResponsibleDollarsCleanChinaBillionsCorePassingPassingsCorporatePollutionCeoCompetitorsPlaying FieldsLevel Playing FieldPollution ControlPassing Laws Author:Denis Hayes
“I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.” ThinkingGrowsIndustryCorporatePublishingMovie BusinessPublishing Industry Author:Matthew Specktor
“Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.” WellsCitiesIndustryBuiltCorporateFactoriesElsewhereDetroitHeadquarters Author:David Maraniss
“It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.” PeopleMadeEndsSeemsWantedRecordsCrazyIndustryCorporateDespise1960s Author:Win Butler
“I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.” ThinkingHumansCultureCompanyGraceOur LivesYouthHugeIndustryPeriodsDollarsRateResistanceInstanceCorporateThese DaysThriveRebellionMusic IndustryFuriousSavvyParcelEncroachmentYouth Culture Author:Ani DiFranco
“The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"” PeopleTwoDifferentWould BeArtistWalksStreetsBuildingIndustryHotCorporateDifferent ThingsTwo Different Things Author:Chamillionaire