Response to "The Corporation"

Although this film had depicted a very real and unrelenting side to our television media, it scared me half to death. I began to worry deeply throughout the film about what I should and shouldn’t believe anymore. I no longer have a tight grasp on the fact on whether if a story being presented to me on the television screen is honestly truthful or not. This utterly frightens me because I do not feel as if I can’t even trust anyone to describe real life facts and stories to me anymore. After viewing this documentary, questioning every piece of evidence that backs up each individual story is the first precaution I feel I must take. I, personally, cannot just leisurely watch the news to get my information now; everything has to go through a filter because of the case presented in The Corporation.

To my previous knowledge of corporation, I knew very little of how such businesses worked. I thought that a corporation was just the “top dogs” of every company who does nothing at all but still makes the most money out of every employee even though they do nothing to earn it. However, my assumptions have been proved dead wrong. A corporation is more of the “head of the household” who dictates completely what is said when, how that thing is said, and who it is said by in what tone of voice, etc. For example, like the story we were exposed to in this film, the story about the hormone-using cows and how those chemicals were getting into our milk supply and potential hurting us humans as well as animals that drank it. These facts came up on the table but because the big corporation was paid by that hormone company to keep quiet about these harmful facts, the two broadcasters had to immensely water down the story and were even secretly offered money to keep “hush hush” about the whole thing and burn it entirely. This is ultimately wrong and frightening. What other kinds of stories are out there similar to this that could be negatively effecting our health yet are not being published just so a company can make money? I have no idea and don’t think I even want to know.

These kinds of instances just make you wonder why? Or to what extent so corporations can keep making the big fat paycheck? Our lives? Possibly, I just do not know. This whole film kind of goes towards the whole childhood rule, “Do as a say, not as I do,” where a task is put at hand but there are maneuvers and detours that must be taken in order to fit the rules of the owners, bosses, businesses, etc. Corporations are forcing people, like broadcasters for instance, to come up with stories to sell their pieces to the public which in turn gets put into that “big bosses” pocket, yet they, the broadcasters, are limited to what they are able to publish. I just, for the life of me, cannot wrap my head around this concept. It seriously appalls me to no end and even brings out anger in me to here of problems like this film documents about.