Herbert Schiller Quotes

Herbert Irving Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University.

Schiller warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society. He was widely known for the term “packaged consciousness,” that argues American media is controlled by a few corporations that “create, process, refine and preside over the circulation of images and information which determines our beliefs, attitudes and ultimately our behavior.” Schiller used Time Warner Inc. as an example of packaged consciousness, stating that it “basically dominates publishing, cable television, recordings, tapes and filmmaking.”He was married to librarian and scholar Anita Schiller, and their children include sons Zach and Dan. Zach Schiller is a public policy analyst in Ohio, and Dan Schiller is a telecommunications historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. November 1919 – 29. January 2000
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Famous Herbert Schiller Quotes

“How did thinking that benefited the few gain the acceptance of the many?”

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Four, Communication Theorists Of Empire, p. 108

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

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter One, Number One And the Political Economy Of Communication, p. 56

“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.”

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Six, In the Core Of power, p. 154

Herbert Schiller Quotes about the world

“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.”

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Two, Visions Of Global Electronic Mastery, p. 67

Herbert Schiller Quotes

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

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Five, Corporatizing Communication And Culture, p. 138

“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.”

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Three, Communication Today: What's New?, p. 92

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

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter One, Number One And the Political Economy Of Communication, p. 56

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

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Five, Corporatizing Communication And Culture, p. 138

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