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Herbert Schiller

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Herbert Schiller was a prominent American author known for his profound insights into media and communication studies. His works explored the role of media in politics and society, which had a profound impact on scholars and practitioners in subsequent generations.

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“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.”

Mean States Action America Form Individual Results Communication Myth Manipulation Devoted Employed Inertia Passivity

Author:Herbert Schiller

“I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.”

Humans Human Beings Economic Streets Huge Forgotten Related Deprivation Workforce Erode Compunction

Author:Herbert Schiller

“My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.”

Left Force Economy University Driving Enterprise Meaningless Ignored Vague Shallow Superficial Driving Force University Education

Author:Herbert Schiller

“In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.”

Needs Age Social Process Labor Assertive

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.”

Social Powerful Capitalism Improvement Inequality Spheres Triumphant Unleashed

Author:Herbert Schiller

“The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.”

People World Kind States Action Millions Inaction

Author:Herbert Schiller

“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.”

People World Wells Easy Lines Poverty Imagine Policy Fields Nuclear Billions Regions Dozen Nuclear War Posse Melons

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.”

States Effort Advantage Strive Firm Strife Shareholders

Author:Herbert Schiller

“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, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."”

Has Beens Example Industry Protect Trade Corporate Rejected Restraint Free Trade Prerogative Designation Ascendancy Infringement

Author:Herbert Schiller

“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 is contested.”

Interest Economy Authority Notion Liberated Public Interest Deregulation

Author:Herbert Schiller

“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 advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.”

Stills Individual Example Expression Internet Advantage Structure Democratic Marketing International Advertising Corporate Realistic Vehicle Sooner Or Later Technological Individual Expression

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.”

Heart Doe Existence Capitalism Labor Connections Essence Inequality Features Operations Instability

Author:Herbert Schiller

“how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?”

Example Speech Democratic Corporate Freedom Of Speech Discourse

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.”

Mean Has Beens Corporate Accountability Reducing Deregulation

Author:Herbert Schiller

“But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.”

Social Term Benefits Deny Revolutionary Acceptable Savages Social Systems

Author:Herbert Schiller

“The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.”

World Difficult Interest Growing Up Growing Effects Keys Impact Marketing Core Shopping Malls Cumulative Commercialism

Author:Herbert Schiller

“One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.”

World Order Economy Growing Capitalism Direct Threat Around The World Stability Capability

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Popular dissatisfaction seems to occur only when the shopping or the commercials are interrupted. In such an atmosphere, is there any reason to imagine that saturation shopping could be a source of instability to the U.S. world position?”

World Reason Seems Imagine Position Source Atmosphere Shopping Imagine That Dissatisfaction Interrupted Instability Saturation

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.”

World Interest Natural Behinds Company Huge Internet Following Corporate Free Speech Highways Hype Natural Things

Author:Herbert Schiller

“For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.”

People Life Should Believe Social Keys Essentials Evidence Institutions Manipulation Neutrality Social Institutions

Author:Herbert Schiller

About the Author

Born: November 5, 1919
Died: January 29, 2000
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Quotes: 20

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