The flow of information it promotes is free in one respect … - Herbert Schiller

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The flow of information it promotes is free in one respect only. The flow is expected to be freely admitted to all the spaces that its providers desire to transmit to. Otherwise there is nothing free about the information. Quite the contrary. Information and message flows are already, and will continue to be, priced to exact the highest revenues extractable.

Herbert Schiller

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About 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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Alternative Names: Herbert I. Schiller • Herbert Irving Schiller • H.I. Schiller

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