http://www.alternet.org/culture/pillars-american-society-are-showing-how-incompetent-they-are-and-they-dont-care?akid=12329.294211.IdzApL&rd=1&src=newsletter1021928&t=3
most Americans are on the receiving end of a corporate culture that
overpromises, requires payment first, typically doesn’t care about
customer service—which is their real-world impact—and mostly is driven
by organizational self-interest.
That seems to be the bottom-line with the JPMorgan Chase hack, where
you can be sure that the bank’s executive suite knew that it was lying
several weeks ago when it said that 1 million bank accounts were hacked.
On Friday, the New York Times reported the real number was 76 million.
That’s almost one quarter of the country's population. On Saturday, the
Times reported that other major financial firms were hit as well. Yet
the industry's publicity strategy seems to be, ‘Oh, whatever…’
The NFL’s handling of the Ray Rice video follows the same playbook.
Where is the evidence that the NFL puts anything before its own profits
and marketing? The video is the least of it. This is a sport where a
sizeable slice of retired players are aging with brain injuries, which
owners have downplayed for years while fighting legal settlements. Its
top priority is marketing football’s tough guy,
real-men-work-through-pain image and banking billions in profits.
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