Corporate propaganda are propagandist claims made by a corporation (or corporations), nearly always for the purpose of manipulating market opinion to the benefit of their product or to divide public opinion with regard to controversial issues related to that corporation, and its associated business dealings. Corporate propaganda is distinct from advocacy. Advocacy presents product and service information fully, fairly, and without exploitation of consumer emotions. Just as the use of these products and services can provide pluses which outweigh the minuses to society and individuals, their advocacy may function more positvely than negatively. This article is about the type of communication. ... A corporation is a legal person which, while being composed of natural persons, exists completely separately from them. ...
Decision Earth Procter & Gamble propaganda materials distributed to schools, to influence young children with false science notions.
Tobacco industry Long history of advertising and litigation wherein practices of manipulation and deception are common.
The most common form of corporate propaganda is advertising. Decision Earth was corporate propaganda marketed by Procter and Gamble which was distributed to roughly 75,000 schools in the United States. ... Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group) is the largest civil engineering company in the world. ... The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. ... Billboards and street advertising in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, (2005) Advertising is the business of drawing public attention to goods and services, and performed through a variety of media. ...
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Constructing 'Reality': When Facts Do Not Matter and Instinct and Hunches Rule
Corporations and industry organizations are creating complete sets of lesson plans that promote their point of view in the guise of educational materials.
First, multinational corporations are designing and distributing environmental curricula that are professionally produced, easy to use, often free and extremely biased in favor of industry.
Corporations are invited to contribute money for the construction of school buildings and, as acknowledgment for their support, they get the building named after them.
Revenue and profit, corporate growth and power, executive pay and ego, these are all determined by us, the masses, and helps explain why the oligarchy has decided to invest and take an interest in all forms of media that reaches and influences us.
Corporate media caters to military interests because in many instances they are part of the military industrial complex.
We are witnesses to a form of propaganda that is transforming this nation from a once bright-shining pulsar of informed democracy into a dark nebula of nothingness where everything that matters is neglected and all that degenerates and indoctrinates prospers.
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