It’s funny how we can view the ‘typical criminal” a young, tough, lower – class male. This stereo typical image is incorrect. The rich are far more violent and are lot more dishonest than the poor. The real truth is criminal behavior committed by corporations is by far, more damaging to our society economically, environmentally, and socially, by far. For example every six hours a worker dies in the work place as a result of corporate crime. The media is so powerful it takes our attention away from the damage the corporate criminals have committed.
Giant corporations with their billions of dollars in assets have an enormous influence in the media and our political system. This built in institutional bias does more than merely protect the corporate system. It also robs the public of a chance to understand the real world. There exists hardly any in-depth reporting about what has caused the widening gap between rich and poor. Control of the media by large corporate monopolies leads to political domination of the main stream Canadian people.
Monopolistic power dominates many industries, and most of them enjoy special treatment by the government. But media giants have two enormous advantages. They control the public image of national leaders who, as a result, fear and favour the media magnate’s political agendas. This creates restrictions on political activity, union activity and public disclosure. They control the information that helps establish the social, political and cultural attitudes of increasingly larger populations. The news media in Canada does not tell the Canadian people that a political whip hangs over their head.
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