Surviving Capitalism (Not) : BP Buys Search Terms to Redirect Users to Company Web Site

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

BP Buys Search Terms to Redirect Users to Company Web Site

from the Center for Media and Democracy. This truly amazes me. It illustrates once again that in a capitalist system everything becomes a commodity. I just wasn't aware that one could buy priority on Google or other search sites--naive me! It appears that BP gives damage control a priority in public relations, not damage control to what they have done to the environment on the Gulf Coast.

Here is more public relations damage control by BP in this article entitled, "BP Tries to Block Photos of Dead Wildlife"