Jump to content

Multinational Monitor: Difference between revisions

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
WolfAudet (talk | contribs)
25 edits
No edit summary
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
 
(43 intermediate revisions by 24 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Short description|Defunct magazine covering corporate accountability and related topics}}
{| class="infobox bordered" style="text-align: center; font-size: 80%;"
{{more citations needed|date=December 2016}}
|-
{{Infobox magazine
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | [[Image:Multinational_Monitor_logo-red.gif]]
| title = Multinational Monitor
|-
| logo = Multinational Monitor logo-red.png
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:25_years_of_monitoring.jpg 25th Anniversary Cover]
| logo_size = 200px
⚫
|}
| image_file = <!-- cover.jpg (omit the "file: prefix -->
| image_size = <!-- (defaults to user thumbnail size if no size is stated) -->
| image_alt = ffffffff
| image_caption =
| editor =
| editor_title =
| previous_editor =
| staff_writer =
| photographer =
| category = Business magazines
| frequency = Bimonthly
| circulation =
| publisher =
| founder = [[Ralph Nader]]
| founded = 1980
| firstdate =
| finaldate = May/June 2009
| company = [[Essential Information]]
| country = USA
| based = [[Washington, D.C.]]
| language = English
| website = {{URL|http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/}}
| issn = 0197-4637
| oclc = 644110798
⚫
}}
The '''''Multinational Monitor''''' was a bimonthly magazine founded by [[Ralph Nader]] in 1980. It was published by [[Essential Information]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Multinational Monitor|url=http://www.peopleandtheplanet.com/index.html@lid=26866&section=46&topic=31.html|work=People and the Planet|accessdate=5 December 2016|date=23 May 2002}}</ref> The magazine was formerly published on a monthly basis.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rob Weissman, editor of Multinational Monitor magazine|url=http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/program/mediamatters090524|accessdate=5 December 2016|work=NPR PBS|date=24 May 2009}}</ref> Although its primary focus was on analysis of [[corporation]]s, it also published articles on [[Trade union|labor]] issues and [[occupational safety and health]], the [[Environmentalism|environment]], [[globalization]], [[privatization]], the [[global economy]], and [[Developing country|developing nations]].


The headquarters of the magazine was in Washington DC.<ref>{{cite book|author=Carl Jensen|title=Censored 1996: The News That didn't Make the News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RY0UZWBwUIoC&pg=PA272|accessdate=5 December 2016|year=1996|publisher=Seven Stories Press|isbn=978-1-888363-01-2|page=272}}</ref> It was a [[non-profit]] and [[advertising]]-free publication.


The last issue (according to the magazine's web-site) had a coverdate of May/June 2009; this magazine may now be permanently defunct, though the web-site still contains a very thorough archive of past issues.
The '''Multinational Monitor''' is a [[non-profit]] magazine founded by [[Ralph Nader]] in 1980. It is published by [[Essential Information]]. Although the '''Multinational Monitor’s''' primary focus is on news analysis of the activities of world corporations; it also prints articles having to do with labor issues, [[the environment]], [[globalization]], [[privatization]] multilateral banks, economic issues, and developing nations.


==Recurring features==
==Features==
===The Top Ten Worst Corporations===
===10 Worst Corporations===
Since 1992 ''Multinational Monitor'' published an annual index recapping the activities and policies of ten corporations who demonstrated particularly egregious behavior.
Officially named in 1992, it has since become an annual issue detailing the top ten culprits of corporate crime, negligence and dastardly behavior out of the major corporations. Usually released in December it has become the most recognized and publicized feature of the '''Multinational Monitor'''. The 2005 list was:
[http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#BP BP] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#Delphi Delphi] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#Dupont Dupont] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#ExxonMobil ExxonMobil] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#Ford Ford] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#Halliburton Halliburton] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#KPMG KPMG] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#Roche Roche] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#Suez Suez] - [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.html#W.R.%20Grace W.R. Grace] <ref>[http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/mokhiber.htm The 10 Worst Corporations of 2005] "Multinational Monitor Nov./Dec. issue"</ref>


===The [[Lawrence Summers]] Memorial Award===
===Lawrence Summers Memorial Award===
Each issue declared the bimonthly recipient of the Lawrence Summers Memorial Award, an award given in satirical honor of Lawrence Summers, the [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] under [[Bill Clinton]] and later [[President of Harvard University]], given to companies that "take extraordinary leaps to justify unethical practices." The award referred to the infamous [[Summers memo]] written by Summers' aide Lant Pritchett in 1991, when Summers was the [[World Bank]]'s Chief Economist. The memo advocated transferring toxic waste and pollution from developed countries to least developed countries. (Summers later stated the memo was meant to be satire.)
In satirical honor of the former treasury secretary under [[Bill Clinton]] and Harvard president, the [[Lawrence Summers]] Memorial Award is a bi-monthly award given to companies that take extraordinary leaps to justify unethical practices.


==See also==
{{cquote|
*[[Corporate crime]]
“In a 1991 internal memorandum, then-World Bank economist Lawrence Summers argued for the transfer of waste and dirty industries from industrialized to developing countries. “Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (lesser developed countries)?” wrote Summers, who went on to serve as Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration and was recently ousted as president of Harvard University. “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. ... I’ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under polluted; their air quality is vastly inefficiently low [sic] compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.” Summers later said the memo was meant to be ironic.”
*[[Criticisms of corporations]]
<ref>[http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2006/052006/front.html#LAWRENCE Lawrence Summers Memorial Award] “Multinationalmonitor.org”</ref>
*[[List of corporate scandals]]
}}
*[[Multinational corporation]]

Most recently the May/June award went to British American Tobacco who presented the argument, to the parliament of [[New South Wales]] that a smoking ban in pubs would lead to an increase in the drugging of smoker’s drink when they would leave for a cigarette.


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
<references />


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/ Multinational Monitor Website]
*[http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.nader.org/shortbio.html Biography of Ralph Nader]



[[Category:Activism]]
[[Category:Advertising-free magazines]]
[[Category:Advertising-free magazines]]
[[Category:Alternative press]]
[[Category:Bimonthly magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Anti-corporate activism]]
[[Category:Business magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Political magazines]]
[[Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Defunct political magazines published in the United States]]

[[Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States]]
{{Mag-stub}}
[[Category:Magazines established in 1980]]
{{Activism-stub}}
[[Category:Magazines disestablished in 2009]]
[[Category:Magazines published in Washington, D.C.]]
[[Category:Modern liberal magazines published in the United States]]

Latest revision as of 21:40, 18 November 2023

Multinational Monitor
CategoriesBusiness magazines
FrequencyBimonthly
FounderRalph Nader
Founded1980
Final issueMay/June 2009
CompanyEssential Information
CountryUSA
Based inWashington, D.C.
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.multinationalmonitor.org
ISSN0197-4637
OCLC644110798

The Multinational Monitor was a bimonthly magazine founded by Ralph Nader in 1980. It was published by Essential Information.[1] The magazine was formerly published on a monthly basis.[2] Although its primary focus was on analysis of corporations, it also published articles on labor issues and occupational safety and health, the environment, globalization, privatization, the global economy, and developing nations.

The headquarters of the magazine was in Washington DC.[3] It was a non-profit and advertising-free publication.

The last issue (according to the magazine's web-site) had a coverdate of May/June 2009; this magazine may now be permanently defunct, though the web-site still contains a very thorough archive of past issues.

Recurring features

[edit]

10 Worst Corporations

[edit]

Since 1992 Multinational Monitor published an annual index recapping the activities and policies of ten corporations who demonstrated particularly egregious behavior.

Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

[edit]

Each issue declared the bimonthly recipient of the Lawrence Summers Memorial Award, an award given in satirical honor of Lawrence Summers, the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton and later President of Harvard University, given to companies that "take extraordinary leaps to justify unethical practices." The award referred to the infamous Summers memo written by Summers' aide Lant Pritchett in 1991, when Summers was the World Bank's Chief Economist. The memo advocated transferring toxic waste and pollution from developed countries to least developed countries. (Summers later stated the memo was meant to be satire.)

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Multinational Monitor". People and the Planet. 23 May 2002. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Rob Weissman, editor of Multinational Monitor magazine". NPR PBS. 24 May 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  3. ^ Carl Jensen (1996). Censored 1996: The News That didn't Make the News. Seven Stories Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-1-888363-01-2. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_Monitor&oldid=1185762347"