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www.reutershealth.com. 32. Editorial, "Selling to-and Selling Out-Children," The Lancet 360, September 28, 2002, 959. 33. Sonya Schroeder of the Geppetto Group, "Discussions-What Makes a Brand 'Cool' for Kids?," available at www.reveries.com/reverb/ revolver/geppetto/. 34. Statement to my research assistant, Dawn Brett, May 2003. 35. Quoted in John Heinzl, "Health Group Aims to Fry Kids' Junk Food Ads," Globe and Mail (Toronto), January 24, 2003, B7. 36. The industry's claims can be criticized for the way they downplay the role of advertising in creating a demand for unhealthy food. At the same time, there is a grain of truth to their insistence that other factors create demand too. Social and economic pressures on parents are one of these. Worn-out parents, often single, poor, working overtime or even two jobs, have little time to shop for and prepare a full meal at the end of the day. Cheap, fast, and easily accessible food-albeit not necessarily healthy food-may be their only option. 37. Interview with Chris Hooper. Back Matter Page 22 196 NOTES Press, 1997), 68, where I argue that the encroaching privatization of public space erodes free speech rights. See also Jerold S. Kayden, New York City Department of City Planning, and the Municipal Art Society of New York, Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000). 48. This paragraph is a modified version of one that appears in Joel Bakan, "Beyond Censorship." 49. Jeffrey Hopkins, "Excavating Toronto's Underground Streets: In Search of Equitable Rights, Rules and Revenue," in City Lives and ..ERR, COD:3.. Back Matter Page 23 NOTES 197 63. Interview with Mark Kingwell. 64. Interview with Chris Barrett and Luke McCabe. 65. Ibid. 66. Ibid. 67. Ibid. 68. Ibid. 69. Ibid. 70. Molnar and Reaves, Buy Me! Buy Me! Chapter 6: Reckoning 1. Special Report: "Global Capitalism-Can It Be Made to Work Better?," Business Week, November 6, 2000, 74-75. To similar effect, Robert Monks warned in an interview that "the issues that are raised [by the antiglobalization protesters] are legitimate and we ignore them to our peril." 2. Even Milton Friedman worries, as he expressed in an interview, that in our society of two classes, haves and have-nots, "you cannot maintain a real democracy" because of the risk of the have-nots "blowing up the system." 3. Interview with Ira Jackson. 4. Interview with Joe Badaracco. 5. Kunal Basu, Henry Mintzberg, and Robert Simons, "Memo to: CEOs," reprinted in Fast Company 59 (June 2002): 117. 6. Interview with Ira Jackson. 7. Interviews with Chris Komisarjevsky and Hank McKinnell. Speeches by Sir John Browne, "The Case for Social Responsibility" ("monster"); "Century of Choice" ("win back"), available at www.bp.com. 8. Robert Monks, The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism (New York: Perseus Publishing, 1998), 183-184. Corporations became irresponsible, Monks said in an interview, when "the atom of ownership" was broken and "owners became one group of people and managers became another, suddenly nobody became responsible to society." 9. Monks, The Emperor's Nightingale, 163 ("same"), 171 ("safe"). 10. Interview with Robert Monks ("effective"). 11. Interview with Elaine Bernard. 12. Interviews with Ira Jackson, Charles Kernaghan, and Debora Spar. 13. Interview with Robert Monks. Back Matter Page 24 198 ' NOTES 14. Interview with Debora Spar. In lieu of sharing the hard facts about what they actually do, corporations often formulate inspiring codes of conduct that they happily share with the public. The codes speak of how workers are treated with great respect and the environment looked after. Kernaghan believes that corporations' voluntary codes of conduct are the ultimate privatization of human rights, a "dead end." 15. Interview with Charles Kernaghan. 16. Interview with Simon Billenness. 17. Louis K. Liggett Co. et al. v. Lee, Comptroller et al., 288 US 517 (1933) 567, 548 ("evils"). 18. Interview with Milton Friedman. As Harvard's Elaine Bernard pointed out in an interview, deregulation simply shifts costs from corporations onto individuals and society, "If a factory is polluting, it's saving money. Why? Because it's using worse technology. It's using up resources that it's not paying for, and it's putting the cost of that waste onto the community as a whole. So in the company's books it looks very good. In society's books it's running a big deficit.... And today I think that corporations are externalizing a lot of costs onto the community, whether it's the cost of burning up employees by increasing the work time, by working them for a few years and then throwing them out, by not paying the full cost of the labor that employees give to a firm, by coming into a community, getting all sorts of grants, and then turning around and leaving it in worse shape than they entered. All of those things externalize the cost onto the community of the corporation." 19. Quoted in Editorial, The Sunday Herald (Scotland), August 26, 2001. 20. Interview with Naomi Klein. 21. Interview with Noam Chomsky. 22. Indeed, from the perspective of its supposed beneficiaries, the regulatory system was imperfect from the beginning. Historically, regulation was a [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |
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