“The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society.”

About Edward S. Herman

Economist • American

Edward S. Herman was a distinguished American economist, social critic, and media analyst. He was a professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Herman is best known for...