{"id":31,"date":"2006-11-27T03:51:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-11-27T03:53:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T17:53:30","slug":"the-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"The Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have held off seeing this one because I was quite sure it was preaching to the converted…<\/p>\n

However a nice guilt-free bittorrent download with the blessing of the makers was enough reason for me to take a look:
\nThe Corporation – Legal Bittorrent<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, as a cog in various Corporate wheels, the viewing wasn’t so guilt-free. I didn’t think ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ would have total praise for this film. The polemic employed grated with me a bit, so I was surprised to see it with a 90% rating. Kinda agree with one the of the unconvinced critics, who said “Achbar and Abbott would have had a first-rate film had they stuck with their conceit — corporations as inmates running the asylum — but they dilute their case in an attempt to make it irrefutable.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Damning it is… but persuasive to those who might best benefit from appreciating the perspective put forward by the documentary? I’m not so sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have held off seeing this one because I was quite sure it was preaching to the converted… However a nice guilt-free bittorrent download with the blessing of the makers was enough reason for me to take a look: The Corporation – Legal Bittorrent Unfortunately, as a cog in various Corporate wheels, the viewing wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}