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Post by Mr. Daniel on Apr 29, 2013 8:48:36 GMT -5
In your reasoned judgment, how balanced or biased is the documentary The Corporation?
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Post by peterjuska on Apr 30, 2013 14:06:32 GMT -5
I think it is balanced overall because the people that are being interviewed come from both sides of the argument, i.e. you as a consumer do or do not have a responsibility. It plays with emotions by adding the footage of the waste in the river from the paper factory and the cows with the diseases and also shows the cancer victims etc. It's not very biased because both arguments are balanced out by each other in the documentary.
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Post by rutha on May 2, 2013 8:57:47 GMT -5
I don't think it is balanced because if you look at it, all the video is doing is talking about how bad corporation is and the damage they're doing to society. Yes, they do show cancer victims, cows with diseases but they don't really talk abut how the corporation is helping the society but all they're doing is talking about how corporation is just ruining society and not treating their people fair and all that. I don't think it's balanced.
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Post by peterjuska on May 2, 2013 11:14:03 GMT -5
I see where you are coming from, I now agree that it is not balanced.
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Post by Mr. Daniel on May 2, 2013 11:57:43 GMT -5
If I make a documentary about cancer, but don't talk about the good that comes from cancer, is my documentary biased? Couldn't the people who made this documentary try to say something similar?
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Post by rutha on May 3, 2013 18:21:15 GMT -5
Cancer is not doing any good for the community compared to business. Cancer is a disease that technically has no good side to it but business does. Even though business is harming society, it is also contributing to society but for cancer, I have not heard anything good about it. The only good I could think cancer brings to society is it brings families together to help the sick person get through it; apart from that, I haven't heard anything good about it. So we're writing a persuasive speech about a certain topic right? If we're for whatever we're talking about, we still have to say something for and against the topic. I see this documentary as the persuasive speech we're giving in class; so it should talk about the good an the bad and not just the bad.
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Post by johnr on May 4, 2013 18:37:12 GMT -5
I agree with Ruth. The documentary can not be truly persuasive if it only adresses one aspect of a topic. It needs to acknowledge the positive effects of the topic- in this case, corporate business. The video is outlined by a checklist of the symptoms of being a psychopath, such as inability to form right relationships and lack of responsibility for actions. The idea behind this analogy is that if the government can treat a corporation as an individual, then its behavior can be evaluated as such. But the producers forget to mention that business tends to stimulate local economies; that many business groups are philanthropists, and support charitable organizations; and that business is the means by which many people make a living, to name a few of the positives of business. So by ignoring these facts, the documentary loses credibility for people who are already biased in the favor of incorporated business groups.
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Post by karinad on May 6, 2013 20:58:35 GMT -5
Haha thank you Mr. Daniel - very liberal biased, doesn't mean its wrong.
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Post by clairep on May 7, 2013 7:50:07 GMT -5
I think the documentary CAN be persuasive when only focussing on side of a story, however, it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Though it is persuasive it is not very successful at being persuasive. To truly turn my opinion it would need to have answered some of my questions from the point of view of the other side. I agree that the video is not balanced at all but I also see that the creators are clearly trying to sway the audience's opinion but I think they do a poor job of this because they do not support or even acknowledge any of the up sides of business.
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