The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation,… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
