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Originally Posted by c312
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Originally Posted by Machette
A publisher which is usually in the business to make a profit usually doesn't care about it's "image"...general electric which owns nbc and universial makes huge profits off of different mediums but they also make fighter jet engines..does that not tarnish their so called "image"...they make a profit that's what their share holders want...and publishing something controversial as we all know only makes it bigger over time, their is massive money to be made off of people like chomsky. I'm not saying publishers discredit everyone and everything from being published I'm saying their is a limit.
Also those links don't work, guess I need a password. eek:
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I thought they might not, they are from a scholarly journal called jstor and I think I can only access it because I'm on the University network.
And of course companies care about image, if they get a bad image, they will have decreased profits. And I know GE makes military products, I just don't see how that tarnishs their image at all. Are you saying making military products makes a company bad? I don't agree at all, and I would say most Americans wouldn't either. I don't think their is massive money to be made off of left wing extremists because the majority of the country wouldn't agree with them, they would just get angry at what they have to say. |
Jumping on the corporate image argument what about let's say McDonalds for example. (this is a elementary example of course, but it serves relevance) McDonalds, even though its bad image of being a fat feeding resturaunt it still makes good money and that can not be denied. Certain companies have bad images yet still have massive profits.
I think Americans should care for that GE example, well most of them don't because they don't know. And their isn't much choice in the matter of what you can do and what you don't buy since their is total dominance in certain industries, even if it is light bulbs. Surely you don't see the sales of people like chomsky and even howard zinn for example..his book a peoples history of the u.s which was published by harper collins owned by news corp..sold 1 million copies if that isn't profit off of a leftists I'm not sure what is.