Home / Quotes / Quote by Herbert Schiller

Quote by 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."”

Quote by Herbert Schiller

Author

Herbert Schiller

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. more

You May Also Like

“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

“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”

Life Giving Art Energy Sides Creativity Difficulty True Love Painter Love Always Energy Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“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