Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least… - Herbert Schiller

The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

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.

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