“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.”

— Herbert Schiller

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Three, Communication Today: What's New?, p. 94

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