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The Multinational Control Of Education And The Media Worldwide
Schools in America are more and more coming under the funding of multinational corporations. This is true not only of universities, where corporate influence is long standing, but even the case with public schools. Children not only grow up but also receive their education under the gaze of corporate America. For example, companies like Coca Cola sponsor computers for public schools in exchange for advertising, coke machines in the halls and other favors. Young children come under the influence of corporate America when they start school, which is supposed to be free of commercial influences and propaganda. Naturally, this gets them into the commercial model of living before they are able to exercise any discrimination about it. It insures that they will be compliant consumers for the rest of their lives, programmed by corporate America to do its bidding and fit into its system.
Of course, universities have long been funded by big business, particularly by the weapons industry and the pharmaceutical drug companies, which are among the largest and most profitable businesses in the world. This is because universities require endowments and departments need outside funding which is not easily available elsewhere, particularly in the era of university downsizing in which public funding for schools is getting progressively reduced. Multinational corporations are increasingly setting the agenda for education in the West, which is losing any appearance of objectivity and increasing promoting commercial interests and values.
The same patronage has always extended to the global media, which is commercially sponsored by multinational corporations and naturally upholds their interests. Even public television programs in America like the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour rely on funding by multinational corporations like Exxon Oil who air short mini-commercials before the programs begin. One wonders how objective and unbiased the reporting in such programs can be.
Author - David Frawley
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