How corporations are killing free speech; a conversation with Josh Bornstein

Friday, 31 January 2025 - 10:00am to 10:30am

Jacques interviews Josh Bornstein about his new book: Working for the brand: How corporations are destroying free speech.  (2024 - Scribe Publishers)

Josh explains how corporations are exercising unprecedented power over what we say, in a way that we wouldn't accept from our governments. He offers examples of lots of large corporations including Qantas and our universities...

Other books recently appeared and documenting the failure of the major institutions and systems in the capitalist political economy to create and maintain equality, justice and ecological safety and security.

Eric Bleecher (2024) The Men Who Killed The News: The Inside Story of how Media Moguls Abused their Power, Manipulated the ruth and Distorted Democracy (Sydney: Scribner)

Grace Blakeley (2024) Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom (London: Bloomsbury)

Rick Morton (2024) Mean Streak: A moral vacuum & a multi-billion dollar government shake down (Sydney: Fourth Estate/Harper-Collins)

Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine (2014) and Doppelganger (2022)

Friday 10:00am to 10:30am
Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.

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Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet

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