Joel In the Media
TIFF 2020: “The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel” (5 star review)
Do we really have to be reminded again and again about who owns the show? Who controls the society or our way of living a life? How much money we earn annually or whether our children will get good education to replace those who were prepared for a job that was never meant for ordinary people?
Podcast: Corporate Psychopaths Still Run The World
Co-directors Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott on how, almost twenty years after their first documentary came out, corporations are still driven by psychopathic greed— but are making it look like they’re out to save the world.
‘The New Corporation’ examines corporate social responsibility claims
More companies are committing themselves to social change. Is it all talk?
Pay-walled article.
The New Corporation reveals dramatic new story line in Big Business’s attempt to rule the world
Joel is featured in this article by Charlie Smith discussing the unfortunately necessary sequel, which is being shown at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival.
Massey College – The New Corporation Virtual Book Launch
Author and film-maker Joel Bakan joins Massey College Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers for a conversation with Junior Fellow Anna Wong and David Schneiderman, from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, to discuss Bakan’s The New Corporation: How “Good” Corporations Are Bad for Democracy.
A stylish fantasy, a second blast at corporate culture, and recalling Canada’s Indigenous history
3.5 star review of The New Corporation for its VIFF launch.
Giant corporations are abusers who say they love you
Anand Giridharadas shares the first excerpt of Joel’s book, “The New Corporation,” along with a first glimpse of the new documentary, which is also featured in.
Democracy, not consumption is “how we will amass power to challenge the corporate behemoth”
Salon spoke to “New Corporation” filmmakers about false reformations & how relaxed regulations lead to tragedies
The New Corporation is truly a ‘necessary sequel’ that unmasks corporate charm offensive
Premiered at the Toronto film festival, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel is perfectly timed. It calls corporations out for their greed as the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates poverty and inequality.
‘New’ corporations are up to the same old tricks
Businesses may purport to care about social and environmental values. But they don’t want to pay taxes to protect and promote those values.
Review of The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel
Filmmakers Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott deliver a blisteringly paced and sporadically fascinating documentary that boasts a number of eye-opening facts and revelations, and it’s clear, certainly, that Bakan and Abbott succeed in pointing out the problems inherent in allowing corporations to hold so much power and influence – with, for example, the growing lack of regulations and oversight on conglomerates essentially paving the way for a myriad of recent disasters (eg the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill).