Herbert I. Schiller

Not yet the post‐imperialist era

The early formulation in the late 1960s of the cultural domination thesis occurred in a specific historical era. Although that period is over, this by no means indicates that cultural domination no longer exists. The difference today is that national (largely American) media‐cultural power has been largely (though not fully) subordinated to transnational corporate authority. A total cultural package—film, TV, music, sports, theme parks, shopping malls, etc.—is delivered worldwide by a small number of multi‐billion‐dollar media combines. To the extent that communication research ignores or glosses these developments, it loses its explanatory power.

Triumph of the image : the media's war in the Persian Gulf : a global perspective

Image And Reality * A Third-World War: A Political Economy of the Persian Gulf War and the New World Order Andre Gunder Frank. * Manipulating Hearts and Minds Herbert I. Schiller. * Roots of War: The Long Road of Intervention Hamid Mowlana. * The Media and the War: What War? Noam Chomsky. Many Nations, One Image * The New World Odour: * The Indian Experience P. Sainath. * The State, the Malaysian Press, and the War in West Asia Zaharom Nain. * A Sense of Kenbei in JapanJapanese Position in the War and Regional Issues Masanori Naito. * Japanese Media and the War, Interview with Tetsuo Kogawa * The War Close to Home: The Turkish Media Haluk Sahin. * The Iranian Press and the Persian Gulf War: The Impact of Western News Agencies Kazem Motamed-Nejad, Naiim Badii, and Mehdi Mohsenian-Rad. * Western Media: Guilty Until Proved Innocent Khawla Mattar. * War Reporting: Collateral Damage in the European Theater Farrel Corcoran. * Ruling by Pooling Stig A. Nohrstedt. * Innovations of Moral Policy Heikki Luostarinen. * Truth: The First Victim of War? Rune Ottosen. * Public Opinion and Media War Coverage in Britain Martin Shaw and Roy Carr-Hill. * A Soviet Snapshot Eugeni Mikitenko. * Coverage of the Gulf War by the Spanish and Catalonian Media Hctor Borrat. * The War as Telenovela Omar Souki Oliveira. * A Sampling of Editorial Responses from the Middle Eastern Press on the Persian Gulf Crisis H. Mowlana, with Danielle Vierling and Amy Tully. Coming Back To Reality * Twisting the U.NCharter to U.S. Ends Richard A. Falk. * CNN: Elites Talking to Elites Richard C. Vincent. * Exterminating Angels: Morality, Violence, and Technology in the Gulf War Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins. * Back to the Future Kamel S. Abu Jaber. * More Viewing, Less Knowledge Michael Morgan, Justin Lewis, and Sut Jhally. * Joysticks, Manhood, and George Bushs Horse Rami G. Khouri. * Clusters of Reality Bombed into Bold Relief Erskine B. Childers. * Dangers of the Cultural Invasion? Mostafa Mahmoud. * Persian Gulf War, the Movie George Gerbner. *