Reply #7: I see TV channels in 5 countries have set airtimes for this doc, 8 are committed but unscheduled

[kenny blankenship]

No US channel is on either list.

People who wonder what corporatism means, or wonder what the term "corporatist media" could possibly mean, have something rich and substantial to chew over here. Why is it that a German TV channel, and Swiss TV, Belgian TV - all "chocolatier" countries - have committed to show this documentary and no US channel has? What your media doesn't show you is at least as important as what they do show you. It's not like people don't consume vast quantities of chocolate in this country. Hell, even Al-Jazeera TV has committed to show this film. But if Americans care to see The Dark Side of Chocolate they will need to receive Canadian public TV, or wait for it to show up on Bittorrent. With all the money that goes into "news" media in this country how come we get so little information about what is actually happening in the world? How come the task of bringing to the world the pictures of this atrocity of global commerce fell to Denmark? Denmark? Nothing against Danish TV here, but CNN could have funded this documentary thousands of times over. Any of its competitors could have, as well. Will they even show it in excerpt? Doubtful.