"Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere."
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Chapter One, Number One And the Political Economy Of Communication, p. 56
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Herbert Schiller
Herbert Irving Schiller (November 5, 1919 – January 29, 2000) was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University.
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