Information Inequality

  • Authors:
  • Herbert I. Schiller

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Information Inequality
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

From the Publisher:Herbert Schiller, long one of America's leading critics of the communications industry, here offers a salvo in the battle over information. In Information Inequality he explains how privatization and the corporate economy directly affect our most highly prized democraticinstitutions: schools and libraries, media, and political culture. A master media-watcher, Schiller presents a crisp and far-reaching indictment of the "data deprivation" corporate interests are inflicting on the social fabric. literacy.... The book provides a concise and poignant 50-year history of cultural and informational institutions in the United States.... All who are concerned about these issues must study this book (Journal of Governemtn Information)