For Anita, Dan, and Zach

Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries

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Copyright © 1969, 1992 by Herbert I. Schiller

Published in 1992 in the United States of America by Westview Press, Inc., 5500
Central Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80301-2877, and in the United Kingdom by
Westview Press, 36 Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7EW

First published in 1969 by Augustus M. Kelley Publishers. Paperback first published
in 1971 by Beacon Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Schiller, Herbert I., 1919-

Mass communications and American empire / Herbert I. Schiller. --
2nd ed., updated.

p. cm. -- (Critical studies in communication and in the
cultural industries)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8133-1439-9. -- ISBN 0-8133-1440-2 (pbk.)

1. Communication-- United States. 2. Mass media--United States.
3. Communication, International. I. Title. II. Series.

P92.U5S29 1992

302.2′0973--dc20 92-17286

CIP

Printed and bound in the United States of America

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The paper used in this publication meets the requirements
of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper
for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. Printed on recycled paper.

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