The cigarette companies knew that cigarettes caused cancer and they lied about it.
Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
Consumers recognize, and don't like, corporate lying.
Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.
Never trust a television executive.
Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.
There are more fakers in business than in jail.
And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.
