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

— Herbert Schiller

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

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American media critic 1919–2000

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